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November 30, 2006
6:30 to 8:00 AM: My Most Consistently “Connected” Part of the Business Day
While this is relative to my physical location of being “somewhere” on the East Coast of the USA, I have been finding that I’m the most productive on email each business morning between 6:30 am to around 8.00 am. For whatever the reason, the people with whom I have a need to communicate with in the morning are mostly “always on” people and each day on average around 100 emails are sent both ways during this time frame.
These days I try to check email 15-18 hours a day. But when I am tied up in meetings or in transit, I am generally only able to scan emails and I reply only later in the day during a quiet moment. And while I am not a fan of having to “time shift and place shift” my email writing, I do so out of business necessity. So, it is only in the morning that I’m able to just about be 100% online all the time, every day (even on weekends). People who know me can bet that I’m getting their early morning emails and when a response is in order, they get their replies from me usually in a lightning fast manner; This in turn changes the metaphor and emails move from being lengthy to becoming most chat like in nature.
One part of the early morning on-line experience that I enjoy is on any given weekday, as soon as I’m awake, I find myself communicating with people on the West Coast who are the night-owls, communicating with the early risers on the East Coast as well as friends in Europe who are in the middle of the business day, generally online and available to communicate.
And it is in between these morning messages that I’m generally focused on creating my first blog entries for the day. So the internal pressure mounts if I get too engaged on email and I haven’t allocated enough time to focus on my blog.
Being online in the morning brings back memories of operating my Ham Radio in the early morning back late 70s and early 80s. Back then the people whom I was able to speak with were dependant upon the ham band that I was on and things like: the position of the sun, the state of the sunspot cycle and other things that effectet ionosphere conditions like the time of year. So in reality, I know I have been communicating in the early morning hours for a good part of my life. It is just that the default channel for communication has moved from my ham radio to the Internet. Oh, and the context of the communication has changed from communication between radio enthusiasts to mostly business communication.
Tags: Ham Radio, email, Jeff Pulver
Posted by jeff on November 30, 2006 07:15 AM | Permalink
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