Is your Inbox empty?
As you may have seen, the book “Bit Literacy” by Mark Hurst was reviewed by Jim Couchenour on the CKN website. See below for that review.
I got another “review” from an Aspen co-worker, who told me it had “one good chapter”, which was on the topic of e-mail. So, I had to read it myself. And yes, the chapter on e-mail is the best. The most challenging thing in the whole book is the encouragement to get your e-mail Inbox to zero items at the end of every day. Yes, zero. Yes, every day. It means you stop using your Inbox as a Task List. It means you start benefiting from the freedom that comes from a clean
Inbox—no more nagging feeling of unanswered mail, lost “To Dos”, etc. So, I tried it. And for the last week, I’ve enjoyed the freedom of zero Inbox! And that’s with all the spam, e-newsletters, FYI notes and humorous stuff we all get on a daily basis. I encourage you to shoot for the goal of an empty Inbox. Pick a day that you’ll do it. It’s possible! Oh, and the rest of the book is OK. Being a “compulsive completer”, I had to finish it. And there was some decent stuff mixed in with his crazy, self-serving ideas about “To Do Lists”. But my "reviewer" was basically right, it’s a one chapter wonder.
You can read the review by Jim Couchenour, Director of Marketing & Ministry Services for Cogun on the CKN site under Recommended Reading.
Brad Eisenmann
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