"As the email spills onto my screen, as my mind races with thoughts of what I’ll answer first, what can wait, who I should call, what should have been done two days ago; I’ve stopped the steady breathing I was doing only moments earlier in a morning meditation and now, I’m holding my breath."
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Linda Stone: Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea
Email apnea - a temporary absence or suspension of breathing, or shallow breathing, while doing email
Linda Stone talks more about email apnea, and about our relationship with technology in general, on the November 1, 2009 episode of Spark on CBC. She also coined the term “continuous partial attention”.
I collected a whole bunch of email tips back on my old blog: Managing Email and More Email Tips - lots of good pointers there; think I’m overdue for a refresher…
