ashe dryden

I'm anti-email.

I don't make a secret of this fact. I don't include my email address on my personal (non-business) cards and ask people to send me a message on twitter before emailing me. It feels like I always have too much email. I have more unanswered emails in my inbox than I'd like to admit. The more involved in projects and community initiatives I get, the less time I have for email, but the more email the new responsibilities create. 

Email has become a part-time job for most people - many employ part-time help to triage their email.

Like most people, I have quite a few email addresses spread across multiple domains. The email addresses are a mix of personal, business, and organizational. Obviously checking multiple email addresses multiple times a day is a huge time sink. Over the past few years I've developed a workflow that makes the most of the time I have to spend on email. What follows is the system I've devised that funnels all of my email through one gmail account (and don't worry - people who send email to/receive email from me can't see it from the outside), with daily local backups using Mail.app (OSX).

I've been trying to speed up my macbookpro because it seems to have slowed down lately. I talked to Matt Gauger and he suggested turning off my dashboard if I wasn't using it.

How to disable your dashboard in OSX

Open terminal and paste this command in.

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

Attempt to launch dashboard. If it doesn't, you win!