These are six things that will make you look stupid in email. In some cases, breaking these rules will make you lose your job. In others, they will simply annoy your readers. If you have any suggestions that should be added, please leave a comment.

Whether your filing system has gotten away from you or it was never really under control to begin with, you can use our handy guide to beat it back into shape. Photo by juan23for.

It's no surprise that cutting back on work and taking regular breaks is beneficial for workers, but a four-year study from the Harvard Business School found that less work also benefits workers—and workplace productivity—in less obvious ways.

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Leo at www.mnmlist.com (got to love that url) has a Definitive Guide to a Minimalist Mac Setup that is an interesting read for OS X users out there.  I think he is missing out by not using Time Machine, but he links to a bunch of great apps and has a lot of idea on how to keep your computer lean and work focused.

Productivity Guru David Allen explains the "Getting Things Done" method to Google employees.

If you want to accomplish more than those around you, you have two options:

• Spend more time working.
• Do more in less time.

There aren’t any other options.  To get more done, you’ll have to do one or both of these things, so lets look at them in more detail.

I gave up trying to keep a clean email inbox years ago.  Everything I had read said that I should sort anything I needed into folders and keep my inbox clean, but I finally just gave up.

Robert Pagliarini from the CBS MoneyWatch.com blog wrote a very interesting post about how to control meetings and get what you want out of it

Here are his nine tips to prepare for your next big meeting:

Recently some hackers got a hold of a list of usernames and passwords for a dating site.  By itself, this wouldn’t have been too big of deal.  However, many of the victims were using the same password on other sites.  This gave the hackers access to many Facebook, MySpace, AIM and GMail accounts.