More productive e-mailing: Move it from "push" to "pull"

Think differently about how -- and how quickly -- you access email.

E-mail sucks, plain and simple. It drives somewhere between 28 and 33 percent of your workday per most studies, no one contextualizes anything (so everything seems urgent), and no one really reads past line 4-5 unless it's from a bigwig. (And don't even get me started on f'n out-of-office.)

So look, you can't ever eliminate e-mail. Why? Simple reason. In…