Tuesday, February 17, 2015

I stopped checking email for a week, and now I realize I've been using it wrong for years

I stopped checking email for a week, and now I realize I've been using it wrong for years

Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino Why bother checking email if most of it is junk? Last week, I took a full week off for the first time in over a year.  I wanted to completely unplug (like many of you, I'm often pulled into work in some form on weekends and holidays), so I disabled notifications from email and Twitter, the two biggest sources of work-related distractions on my iPhone.
After seven full days of email silence, I reactivated the notifications on my Outlook app, and the numbers were shocking:

5 Latest Developments in Bobbi Kristina Brown Tragedy


As Bobbi Kristina Brown fights for her life in an Atlanta hospital and her organs are said to be shutting down, an attorney for the Brown family is slamming reports that the 21-year-old will be taken off life support within the next few days.

Khloe Kardashian Goes Off on Amber Rose in Twitter Rant

Khloe Kardashian is firing back at Amber Rose on Twitter. The rant follows comments the model made about Khloe's younger sister Kylie Jenner and her reported relationship with rapper Tyga in an interview with Power 105.1's The Breakfast Club on Friday.
"She's a baby, she needs to go to bed at 7 o'clock and relax," Rose said of Kylie. "That's ridiculous. [Tyga] should be ashamed of himself. For sure. He has a beautiful woman and a baby and left that for a 16-year-old who just turned 17."