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# My First Quartz Piece
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/my-first-quartz-piece/
- Published: 2015-03-11T21:00:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-06T18:33:32.000Z
- Description: Email lets other people schedule your life—here’s how to stop it
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Communication, Email, Message Not Received

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.

Read the whole thing [here](https://t.co/f8hZ2jrois?ref=philsimon.com).