“I can either be a guy who writes novels, or I can be a guy who answers email. Realizing I cannot be both, I’ve made the decision, and now I live with it.”

Merlin paraphrasing Neal Stephenson’s “Why I am a Bad Correspondent”.

(Making Time to Make: Bad Correspondence | 43 Folders)

We spend so much time with email and other online correspondence, that it’s easy to forget what we’re really trying to accomplish.