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Unsubscribe Author Compares Email to Slot Machines

  • NPR, Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:12 AM
Jocelyn Glei, author of the new book, Unsubscribe, thinks that people check their email way too often. In an interview with NPR, Glei cited some studies that found that on average people check email 11 times an hour and process 122 messages a day. "Email really is very similar to a slot machine in many ways," she told NPR. "You sort of pull that lever. And you kind of lose. Like, you get something, you know, kind of disappointing. Like, it's an email from an angry customer, or it's an urgent message from your boss to ask you to do a task that you don't really feel like doing."

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