Comments on: Let information come to you - email newsletters are not as old fashioned as you think http://thecunningcode.com/2008/let-information-come-to-you-email-newsletters-are-not-as-old-fashioned-as-you-think/ Thoughts that are Cunning Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:06:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alan Hogan http://thecunningcode.com/2008/let-information-come-to-you-email-newsletters-are-not-as-old-fashioned-as-you-think/#comment-7 Alan Hogan Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:14:48 +0000 http://thecunningcode.com/2008/let-information-come-to-you-email-newsletters-are-not-as-old-fashioned-as-you-think/#comment-7 The problem I have with email newsletters that come out at all regularly is that they clutter my inbox. Now that I've acheived Inbox Zero, I don't want to go back, and so every email I get needs to be dealt with within ~2 minutes if possible. Reading newsletters can take a good bit longer. Separating my subscriptions into an RSS reader shifts the dynamic so that they're there when I want them to be, instead of when they're pushed to me. I deal with RSS when I want to instead of with actionable inbox items. The problem I have with email newsletters that come out at all regularly is that they clutter my inbox. Now that I’ve acheived Inbox Zero, I don’t want to go back, and so every email I get needs to be dealt with within ~2 minutes if possible. Reading newsletters can take a good bit longer.

Separating my subscriptions into an RSS reader shifts the dynamic so that they’re there when I want them to be, instead of when they’re pushed to me. I deal with RSS when I want to instead of with actionable inbox items.

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