Sri Vikas.u

“These e-mails take the sender only a handful of seconds to write but can command many minutes (if not hours, in some cases) of time and attention from their recipients to work toward a coherent response. A little more care in crafting the message by the sender could reduce the overall time spent by all parties by a significant fraction”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“What’s the impact of our current e-mail habits on the bottom line?”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“It took courage, as it always does, to eliminate the non-essential.”
― Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - The Two-Million-Copy Bestseller

“I mean, if you fool about too long at the start, trying to establish atmosphere, as they call it, and all that sort of rot, you fail to grip and the customers walk out on you.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Ultimate Wodehouse Collection