Wall Street Journal
Last week I got a call from a Wall Street Journal reporter who was doing a story on "the email addiction." She did a google search and found my New Year's Resolution--don't check work-related email on my day off--on evotional.com.
I think it was the 1950's that Stanley Milgram did his research that turned into six degrees of separation. In other words, there are only six relational connections between us and anyone else in the world. I think Google and the blogosophere cut it in half. It's only three degrees of separation.
Anywho.
Got contacted by Jennifer Saranow at WSJ, did a short interview, and the article, Deleting the Habit: How Email Junkies Do in Withdrawl, hit the front page of the journal yesterday. Here's a link if you want to read the story.
4 Comments:
Haha. Great article. I'm glad that you take one day a week to "fast email" PM.
I was boiling water on the stove for tea this morning and wandered into the other room to check my email. I got sucked into a few email responses and the next thing I knew I had "burnt" water. It smells awful.
I've gotta get rid of this addiction before I burn down the house or something. In the meantime, I'm using the microwave.
What a killer quote!
"It's one thing I'm pretty religious about," he says.
That's awesome!
Great article. I agree on the killer quote! BTW, I didn't know you guys were AG. Anyway, I've been grieving as of late at my inability to disconnect from the church world. I think about it all the time. I work at night, weekends, day off, etc. I love my job and church and I'm having real trouble turning off the switch. ON my time off with my family, I'm always talking about church. Perhaps an e-mail fast on my day off would be a start!
Thats awesome dude. The power of the internet is incredible.
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