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Weekly Ten: Apple Sues A Fruit Logo Again, Email Kills Productivity, Moving Atoms

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 6, 2009

” 2. Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine
How often do you check your email per day? Does checking your email
make you more productive or less productive? Oh, sure, we delude
ourselves into thinking we’re being extra-productive by obsessively
checking and responding to our email, but in reality we’re
attending too frequently to our own desire for gratification and
sabotaging our own productivity in the process.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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