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Intel has started blogging with the first post about the Information Overload, identified via Scobleizer. A really impressive must read and subsequent posts are also interesting but could not subscribe as I could not find the feed.

Regarding information overload, Nathan Zeldes talks about the E-mail and other distractions that reduce the knowledge workers productivity. It is true and the distractions really take their toll and you get lost. For example you might be working on some deliverable and a email pops up saying that something is wrong with other product and you go to put out the fires and by the time you are done you wont know where you left and it would take long time to make up your mind to finish off the task that you were doing before the interruption. Somedays you completely forget until, in shower or sleep, you remember that you forgot an important deliverable. Immediatly scramble up to fix in your laptop.

You can get some breather by organizing and just shutting down your outlook when you are working on an important task but there is no respite from the phone. You will get interrupted and even if you ignore your office phone the cell phone monster would make you answer the call . Let us wait for Nathan Zeldes to give us some pointers to reduce this stress.

Update: The feed is found here and I have misspelled Nathan’s name and my apologies. Thanks for pointing out Josh.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 5:26 pm and is filed under information overload. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Intel has started blogging with the first post about the Information Overload, identified via Scobleizer. A really impressive must read and subsequent posts are also interesting but could not subscribe as I could not find the feed.

Regarding information overload, Nathan Zeldes talks about the E-mail and other distractions that reduce the knowledge workers productivity. It is true and the distractions really take their toll and you get lost. For example you might be working on some deliverable and a email pops up saying that something is wrong with other product and you go to put out the fires and by the time you are done you wont know where you left and it would take long time to make up your mind to finish off the task that you were doing before the interruption. Somedays you completely forget until, in shower or sleep, you remember that you forgot an important deliverable. Immediatly scramble up to fix in your laptop.

You can get some breather by organizing and just shutting down your outlook when you are working on an important task but there is no respite from the phone. You will get interrupted and even if you ignore your office phone the cell phone monster would make you answer the call . Let us wait for Nathan Zeldes to give us some pointers to reduce this stress.

Update: The feed is found here and I have misspelled Nathan’s name and my apologies. Thanks for pointing out Josh.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 5:26 pm and is filed under information overload. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.