How to be strategic about responding to work e-mails

E-mail, at least to me, is a total boondoggle. Responding to work e-mails is an even bigger boondoggle. Let's start with a couple of basics:

• There are no established 'norms' on how to handle e-mail

• E-mail represents work, but it's often not actually work

• Inherently, it's a distraction

But, there's 89 billion (probably more) work e-mails sent every day on t…