Brief thought exercise: could you go five days only checking e-mail 8-10 times?

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Simple idea behind e-mail was to make our lives easier and more connected. It did that -- you can fire off one line to a friend/business partner in Finland, and they can get it seconds later -- but in the process, it also made things more complicated, created a whole new set of etiquette ru…