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Cool Friend: Mark Hurst

Are you weighed down by the email in your inbox or other bit-heavy electronic detritus? New Cool Friend Mark Hurst has these things to say: "Bits are heavy." "Anybody with an email address could change their life if they read this book." "Bit literacy frees you to finish your work so that you can live your life outside work."

With his book, Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload, Hurst explains why it's a good idea to learn more about your computer than how to turn it on and run a few Microsoft Office programs. He's an expert on making people more productive with technology. Get started on your own journey to weightlessness. Visit the website of Creative Good, the user experience consulting firm that he founded, and now runs with Phil Terry. Or check into his other (Wow!) projects, Gootodo.com, the Gel conference, and GoodExperience.com.

We hope you'll enjoy reading Mark Hurst's Cool Friends interview.

Cathy Mosca posted this on 07/10/07.

Comments

I think it is great that this kind of thinking is starting to get out there. Especially as he is not taking a simplistic, conventional time management approach. As someone who hates seeing my inbox > 1 page I can relate to this. By the way one useful feature in outlook is to view your task list by task timeline - effectively it puts your tasks on a calender so it's easy to push things into the future.

Posted by PaulH at July 11, 2007 7:56 AM

Just browsing the internet, very interesting blog

Posted by Freddie Sirmans at July 11, 2007 12:55 PM

Thanks Freddie! And welcome.

Posted by Shelley Dolley at July 13, 2007 3:39 PM