There is an excellent post by Jason Fried on how to actually get some work done in an invasive work-environment. I was pointed to it here.
It seems funny that, while email is asynchronous, most people tend to answer their mails immediately upon receiving them. As Andy Smith indicated (point 3), IM can be used asynchronously too. But people seem to be even less inclined to use it that way. The bells ans whistles in the email, IM, and IRC applications are not very helpful. We should really try harder to use these tools in a way that benefits our workflow.
So, if I don’t answer your email/IM/IRC message as soon as you’d like, I’m most likely not dead, but simply trying to get a continuous workflow. Yes, ironically, I’m writing about this instead of continuing the work I was doing.
Tags: work