stay connected to the world and do work and think. i can you know, i have the freedom to do that. doesn t mean if i m in a hotel lobby waiting for somebody for a meeting, that i have to do e-mail. it is nice to have that option. it needs to be nice and streamlined and compact so you just have all that stuff available to you. again, you need to be the master of it and you know, technology is a great servant but a terrible master. lot of us have outlook at our offices and they really e-mail open and whatever else you may be doing, e-mail pops up on the screen every time there is a one in. do you have a strong feeling about whether that s that s distracting. you really need to be able to hold your focus. you can t multitask in terms of concentrating attention on more than one thing at a time. you can switch rapidly. as long as have you place holders. the problem is people go there and then there and then there. a part of them stays over there. if you wrote it down, throw ton