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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

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Instant messaging lets us detect whether our friends are busy without our bugging them, and texting lets us ping one another asynchronously. I’ll check the email when I come up for air or depending on the situation, I’ll leave my Mail App open and polling every 60 seconds so I can receive correspondence in a timely fashion.

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Web Worker Daily " Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive "

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Burst : Use better ways to communicate when available including blogs, wikis, IM, chat rooms, SMS, and RSS. Bursters know you should try instant messaging if you need a quick answer, go with a blog post if you’re announcing something, and use a wiki for archiving information useful to the entire team. I’ve even [.].

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