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...down and write the damn thing. Open a “Document1.” Hmm. Did I even learn anything in college? Did I have an emblematic experience that shaped me? Alt-tab to Pine. Pressing “down” at the bottom of my inbox seems to do nothing. Perhaps I’ll just help it along by holding the down arow. Surely if I keep shoveling hard enough I’ll hit pay dirt, an inspiration for this column. Or maybe a particularly infuriating David Brooks op-ed or a devilducky.com clip that...
...Cleaning your room. It is the end of the year, and you’re going to have to do it anyway. If you start now, after finals are over you can just relax until it’s time to leave. Ambiguously productive – Cleaning your inbox. There really is no good reason why this demands your immediate attention, unless you’re one of those sad souls who is consistently over quota. If that’s you, start deleting straightaway—you don’t want any study guides to get bounced...
...multitasking. Unlike most folks, however, I've researched the subject, having now written two big articles on multitasking, including this week's cover story. That doesn't exactly make me an expert (heck, no, for at this very moment there are 147 unread e-mails in my inbox). But I'm probably more conscious than most people about the pluses and minuses, the limits and excesses of trying to do too many things at once. And I'm happy to share a few tips that I know I should be applying more assiduously myself...
...Manage your inbox. Don't let your e-mail inbox fill up with undifferentiated stuff - unread mail, read mail, flagged-for-follow-up mail, etc. Daniel Markovitz, senior associate at IBT-USA, a time-management consulting firm, teaches clients to apply one of the "4 D's" to e-mail, snail mail and just about everything else...
...you’ve already mastered Pine for your e-mail inbox and outbox. But why stop there? That oh-so-graphic rich internet application can help you see if your crush from section is online and ready to chat, and generally spruce up your macking skills. For those lovelorn technological incompetents out there, here’s the breakdown—nice and simple. At the “fas%” prompt, type in the Unix code “finger,” followed by the username of your on-campus sex god to find...