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Slow Email (2008)

I've never been a slow-anything person, other than riding slowly up mountains, and that's only because of the weakness of flesh, not any unw...

Then, one day, I was lost during a bike ride, so I pulled out my mobile to find my whereabouts on Google Maps...and found myself checking my email. They mask critical tasks that require real attention to detail and will take much longer than a minute to discharge. There doesn't seem to be a simple, prescriptive or descriptive classification of addiction treatment akin to the seven stages of grief; much of the on-line material about treating addiction is rather disturbing and possibly borderline dangerous (and, mark me, there's a megachurch out there somewhere that is going to make a killing off faith-based treatments for email).

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