The new hot topic of the Internet is this attention management thing.  Merlin Mann recently shared his "Who Moved My Brain?" presentation.  I enjoyed it so much I passed it around the office but felt a little jerkish because the content is a in your face and the message it sends is clear.  The whole idea of attention management means taking control of your time and when and how people can interrupt you.  Doing so can make you feel "inaccessible" at times with the idea being you can do your work then and be accessible at other times.

Someone else asked this raised that issue and Merlin posted his reply.  The presentation and his reply are great reads.

My wife and I recently picked up Blackberry PDAs through Verizon.  This will be a good test to see if I can really leverage this attention management idea as the Blackberry will definitely make me more interruptible.

I’m also going to be back in the office for a bit.  This will be interesting as it is definitely easier to control access to yourself when you are offsite.  The results we achieved during the time out of the office were very good but that project is winding down to another phase.  Without an office to close the door on I will have to try other strategies to allow me to focus on getting work done while giving coworkers access to the answers they need.