About this episode

Ari Meisel discusses how email can overwhelm decision-making and offers strategies for improving focus and productivity.

How many good decisions do you actually have in you each day? Ari Meisel says the answer is about two dozen — which means your inbox, with its thousands of tiny choices, is quietly bankrupting you before lunch. In this encore conversation, the founder of Less Doing joins us to reframe email as a decision-making […]

People in this episode

Guest: Ari Meisel

Topics covered

• email management
• decision making
• productivity
• focus
• self improvement

Keywords

• email
• decision fatigue
• productivity
• focus
• Less Doing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Less Doing

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