Inbox Mail-Count Timeline for W.A. Zajc

I get a lot of mail. Nothing to be proud of, just a fact related to my present research activities. I try to deal with as quickly and directly as possible; the extent to which I succeed is a strong function of time and other workload. You can judge for yourself if I am managing:

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Lessons for students:

1. It's much better to do something now then put it off
2. I thought I could handle the incoming mail torrent simply by insuring that I left each day with less e-mail than I started the day with. What's wrong with this logic?
3. Only by making a graph did I realize how badly strategy in #2 was failing. Never stare at columns of numbers; make a graph.

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By Bill Zajc
Email: (My last name) at nevis.columbia.edu