Try to avoid one at all costs, but if you can’t, use these techniques to come out alive.

I just heard a voicemail from a guy who clearly did not get this memo. Before I get to the list of steps to leaving a proper voicemail, take a listen this.

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(The back story on this is that a girl named Olga was out with her friends in the Marina district of San Francisco, and she talked to this guy named Dmitri for all of two minutes. Then she gave him her card and said “give me a call.” The above are the messages …

Sorry about the title, but this actually happened to me last night. The wife and I are in bed and everything is great. I get up, go to the bathroom (mind you this is at 3:00 AM), come back and lay down (in my own freaking bed) and WHAM! I get stung by a scorpion in my upper back.
At first, it was only a stinging sensation and I really didn’t know what happened. The wife jumps up, turns on the light and says “something just bit …

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
George Bernard Shaw

There was a recent article in the NYT’s that discussed the perils of email and what happens when a good thing goes terribly wrong. Companies of all sizes are taking these matters into their own hands by implementing drastic, but oftentimes, necessary measures to help curb the insanity that has become email. Over at 43Folders, Merlin Mann writes and speaks of his Inbox Zero project. I highly suggest you check …