#Things to consider
- Don’t use the internet to entertain yourself. See your 16 free hours in a day as a “day-within-a-day.” During those hours you are free. Use those hours to perform rigorous self-improvement. The quality of leisure time has degraded. Put more thought into your leisure time.
- Neal Stephenson once explained his omission: “If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. If I instead get interrupted a lot what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time, there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to individual persons.”
- Carl Jung spent two hours writing undisturbed every morning. Then he spent the afternoon meditating and taking long walks in the countryside.
- To remain valuable in our economy today, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.
- Use process-centric responses to email. In crafting your email response to someone’s request, take a minute or two to think through a process that gets you from the current state to a desired outcome with a minimum of messages required.