Helpful Email Tip: Always Draw from the Top

I’m pretty good at keeping up with a lot of projects, but inevitably I fall behind on some emails. The way it works for me is that I get stuck on a final batch—I fly through a couple of hundred messages a day, but then there are at least a dozen that stymie me.

I mentioned this phenomenon on Twitter recently, and @kavla made an interesting comment:

@chrisguillebeau if you never cherry pick that doesn't happen. #alwaysdrawfromthetop

— Kav Latiolais (@kavla) July 28, 2014

In other words: first in,...