Is Email Making Professors Stupid?

Re:Is Email Making Professors Stupid? by Groxx on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:43AM (#19223413)

tl;dr seems to be "get an assistant so you can focus".

yea, I imagine that helps quite a bit. but it doesn't really address the problem, nor is it accessible to the vast majority of people.

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Re:Is Email Making Professors Stupid? by colechristensen on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:54AM (#19223449)

Honestly, it should be.

Take the amount of productivity amplification you can get with assistants and pay the assistant 80% of that. It doesn't have to be 'everybody gets a personal assistant'.

Managers and PMs and the like should be taking on these kinds of roles, but in my experience they either don't do it or they turn it into micromanaging which makes things more, not less difficult.

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Re:Is Email Making Professors Stupid? by stan_rogers on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:13AM (#19223510)

It's more a matter of "hire (or budget for) assistants so your prize people can focus".

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