For the last three nights (or four, I guess, counting today), I have basically forgone my social life, gone straight home after work, and just kept emailing and doing things. It’s been kind of awesome – and my inbox has been under 30 emails for four days straight, which is pretty great. I’ve been finishing up at about 3AM every night.

But it means I’ve literally done nothing but work while I awake – and 90% of that has been email. It’s ridiculous. 

And a vacation? Forget it. if you don’t check at least once a day you are SCREWED when you get back to work. Every ounce of therapeutic benefits will be gone within seconds of checking your email monday morning. No choice but to hit it a little bit each day.

My partner, Keith, is on a two week vacation right now and seems pretty removed from email. I do not envy him. I also don’t expect to really be able actually talk to him for like 3 days after he returns. 

We still encourage and allow this at work, but, man, I dont’ envy the off-the-grid vacationers.