When you're most productive, don't waste time on email. Mike Agar, 01/22/12 This Sunday morning has been a fine example of a simple principle: find your most productive hours and do important things with them. The first 4 hours of today I've done many long neglected important backlog items. Things that have mouldered because quiet concentration could not be found at the office during the day. There is a great missunderstanding about what important means. Many conflate urgent and important, and they are very different things. And email is rarely important or urgent. Starting this week my first 3 hours of every working day will be email free times. No Outlook and no BlackBerry. Unimportant urgent items too, will be ignored. Only the most important tasks will be serviced. I'll be in my home office, unreachable. Come find me after 10:30 am. More

Back from CES Mike Agar, 01/16/12 There was a voice there. An original voice. Just one. More