HEALTH - Different Concept in the Digital Age

"'The Information Diet': Should Americans Exercise More 'Conscious Consumption'?" PBS Newshour 5/18/2012

Excerpt

JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Next, a different concept of health and nutrition in the age of digital technology.

Hari Sreenivasan has our book conversation.

HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): Information has become so abundant and so cheap that, like food, many of us consume too much of it. And what we consume isn't always the best around.

In "The Information Diet," author Clay Johnson lays out the case for
conscious consumption.

COMMENT: Rescuetime is a time-management site, which means it is NOT for everyone.

Also, I learned way, way back from a retired Executive Secretary (using MS Office Outlook) the following 'time-management' tips:

• She checked eMail only twice a day, when she first logged on to her system and in the afternoon. The first is logical if you think about it, she needed to know what her boss wanted done that day. The afternoon was to see if anything needed doing before she went home.

• She just use the bottom Read Pane to see what eMails contained FIRST, only read the full eMail text if it was important. Also gave her the opportunity to delete unimportant eMails.

• She had her [Inbox] with sup-folders for eMails from specific senders (like her boss, other VPs, some departments) and had filters that automatically routed incoming eMails to the appropriate box. When I was working I had a sub-inbox for FEDEX where all eMails form them would automatically be routed so I would get the notifications for deliveries, etc.

• In her Address Book she also had [Distribution Groups] for addressees so she could easily find an individual within the group or send to the entire group.

The bottom line is you can get caught up in paying too much time with eMail and find it is consuming too much of your time. Not everyone is as organized as some people, we are all different.