Your colleagues and clients can wait for a few hours -- or even a day or two -- for you to reply to their emails. If there’s something truly urgent, they’ll pick up the phone.
你的同事和客户可以等你几个小时回复他们的邮件--甚至是等你一天或两天。如果他们觉得事情真的紧急，他们会打电话给你。
Keep your inbox closed when you’re working, and only open it when you’re ready to spend 30 minutes or so dealing with emails. It’s much more efficient to batch-process your emails than to keep popping in and out of your inbox to deal with individual ones.
当你在工作时，不要去理你的收件箱。只有当你会有30分钟左右的空闲时，你可以打开你的收件箱并回复你的邮件。成批处理你的邮件会更高效，而不是每次开开关关收件箱只为单独地处理一两封邮件。