My First Quartz Piece

Email lets other people schedule your life—here’s how to stop it

Mar 11, 2015 1-min read

My first Quartz piece is now live. Here's an excerpt:

Email wasn’t designed as a task-management application, yet many employees use email for precisely this purpose. As a result, it is it any wonder that they become distracted? You check your inbox for an update on a key project or task only to get derailed by a stream of unrelated work or personal messages? It’s easy to get distracted and forget what you were trying to do in the first place.

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