Don't Declare Email Bankruptcy! Get Bit Literate Starting Now.
Posted on Apr 7th, 2008
by 
Duff
Duff
Episode number one of my new podcast Precision Change went live recently. Enjoy!
Are you overwhelmed by information? Do you have 1000's of emails sitting in your inbox right now, many unread, all nagging at you to do something about them? Have you declared email bankruptcy, hoping that "if it's important, they'll write back?"
You are just minutes away from a permanent and responsible solution...and it has nothing to do with getting a Blackberry or the latest upgrade of Microsoft Outlook.
According to Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload, the digital age has created both new opportunities and new problems with these things he calls "bits."
In this interview, listen to Mark teach you...
Take responsibility for your relationship to the digital world by listening to this interview now.
Are you overwhelmed by information? Do you have 1000's of emails sitting in your inbox right now, many unread, all nagging at you to do something about them? Have you declared email bankruptcy, hoping that "if it's important, they'll write back?"
You are just minutes away from a permanent and responsible solution...and it has nothing to do with getting a Blackberry or the latest upgrade of Microsoft Outlook.
According to Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload, the digital age has created both new opportunities and new problems with these things he calls "bits."
In this interview, listen to Mark teach you...
- How to "let the bits go" in a world of infinite bits, and why this is vitally important to your productivity.
- How the inbox was not designed to be a filing system and an address book and a to-do list and a calendar.
- How to get your email inbox and to-do list to zero—today and every day—even with exponentially increasing incoming messages.
- How to procrastinate more effectively by deferring things into the future as far as possible.
- Why you need a simple to-do list, and how to get it to 0 so you experience the feeling of being done.
- How mastering bits gives you time to actually do your work, and enjoy your life more when you're not working.
- Why you may have failed with David Allen's complex Getting Things Done method, and what to do instead.
- The power of bit levers, and why you are typing far more than you need to if you aren't using one.
Take responsibility for your relationship to the digital world by listening to this interview now.
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April 2008 
Hi Duff,
Thanks for the podcast. Really liked that and I look forward to upcoming roundtable discusssions about productivity.
I personally like the GTD method a lot, and do appreciate that it might be too complex for many. The over simplificaction with procrastinating actions as long as possible seems not to be too ideal though.
The risk with procrastinating too long is that when the action is due, you simply don't have the time anymore to do it! That creates stress and that's just what you would like to avoid.
Regards,
Edwin
Good point, Edwin! Time available to do something has to be factored in when strategically procrastinating.
Glad you enjoyed the show.