An Empty In-Box, or With Just a Few E-Mail Messages? Read On
( New York Times )
SINCE e-mail became a fixture in our professional and personal lives, many academic researchers have investigated the complex mix of feelings brought on by the technology.
We feel guilty about being late in responding, about our in-boxes being disorganized, about the tens of thousands of unread messages that we’re sure we’ll never get to. What is it about e-mail that consumes us -- that invades every corner of our personal space, demands ever more sophisticated methods of organization, and makes us wish for extra hours in the day to deal with the deluge? More important, how can we overcome it?
But eventually every finely honed trick to tame my mail would
collapse, and I’d backslide into a messy, undisciplined in-box. So in my search for a new way to deal with e-mail, I followed one guiding principle: Keep it simple. Any method that made too many demands on my time or my brain was bound to fail.
【 まずは準備運動 】
・fixture 定着物、備品
・bring on 生じさせる
・in-box (電子メールの)受信箱
・overcome 打勝つ、克服する
・principle 原理、原則
● 解説ザブ〜ン!