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Why I don’t answer most phone calls

https://medium.com/@adrienjoly/why-i-don-t-answer-most-phone-calls-4a71e1418854

by adrienj • 11 years ago

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dozzie• 11 years ago

Solution: If you have to tell me something really urgent, you can leave a message

If it's urgent, the caller needs (or maybe just wants) to have it passed synchronously. Text message is asynchronous, so there's no indication of when you have received the message. This is totally unsuitable for urgent things. You got it backwards.

Many phone calls I receive are for planning a meeting, or asking me to do something. But callers seem not to realize that [...]

It's your problem, not the caller's. Buy a tablet, or a bluetooth headset if you resist device dedicated to planning. Or insist on asynchronous communication to schedule things (this is actually mentioned in "solution" section).

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