Do You Recommend Multiple Email Accounts for Someone Who Works at Different Institutions?

00:00:00.000 | Alright, let's move on here. Ricardo says, Do you recommend having multiple email accounts

00:00:11.080 | for someone who works at different institutions? Even if the work is similar between institutions?

00:00:16.800 | Yes, Ricardo. In general, I'm in favor of multiple email accounts. I want more friction,

00:00:21.000 | not less. But more importantly, I want context shifting to be minimized. The biggest under

00:00:27.560 | emphasized tax we pay when doing professional work is the cognitive drag required by shifting

00:00:32.840 | our mental context from one target to another. It's draining, it reduces our ability to think

00:00:39.600 | and it burns us out. So when you are sharing multiple institutional communications all

00:00:46.080 | happening in one inbox, you're seeing multiple professional contexts existing together and

00:00:50.920 | your brain is trying to bounce back and forth between these things. It's terrible for the

00:00:54.120 | brain. Terrible for the brain. I have, I think six email addresses right now. And then Jesse

00:01:01.560 | has another for our organization. But I personally have six email addresses because I want to

00:01:06.640 | keep these things separate. I use separate in Google Chrome, you can have these profiles,

00:01:12.760 | browser profiles so that like if you have your password, say for Gmail for one address,

00:01:18.160 | you can switch to another platform, another profile where you have your address saved

00:01:21.520 | for Gmail for a completely different account. And so I have three, three of those and six

00:01:27.120 | different email addresses. And you know, I'll tell you what, some people get mad because

00:01:31.320 | like, oh, it's longer before I hear back from you because I have to, you have to wait until

00:01:34.760 | I'm next at a day or time where I'm checking that address, but it keeps the context shifting

00:01:38.160 | minimized. That's critical.