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Ted Leung points to some research on the impact of messaging interrupts during the day. As expected, phone calls are a big one - the recovery time from one is 15 minutes (time from getting the call to returning to the task at hand). However, email is more intrusive than you think. The recovery time there is 64 seconds - and you'll see a lot more email interrupts. At one point I had my mail arranged so that the poll was once an hour - maybe I should go back to something longer than the default (which is 5 minutes in Eudora)...
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