Tool 3: Your Email Inbox
Explore methods to take control of your email inbox and improve self-organization as a software engineering manager. Understand the importance of treating email as a communication tool separate from your to-do list by archiving read messages, unsubscribing from unnecessary lists, and setting helpful filters. This lesson helps you establish a mindful email system to reduce stress and enhance productivity in your managerial role.
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Let’s look at your third tool. It’s email, and it makes the world go round. To struggle with email, and to go so far as to hate it, means that you’re resisting the irresistible. Instead, you need to master a reliable system for making your email inbox work for you and not the other way around.
Learning to love email involves implementing some simple processes, but mostly it involves a mindful approach with some self-discipline. Even if you don’t learn to love it, it will become as much part of your life as brushing your teeth.
In the same way that you’ve probably seen a colleague with a crazy calendar, you’ve probably also glanced at colleagues’ screens and seen their crazy email inbox. Tens of thousands of unread messages! Emails to themselves as reminders to do things! Hundreds of emails from newsletters that they might read! My ...