It is addictive; like slot machines. Read this very important article from the Guardian.

We are so over connected.

At times – I know I feel overwhelmed. I have 5 email accounts – a personal account which I have had since 1992; a Washington Capitals account – which I have had since 1999 and a Washington Wizards account which I have had since last season. I also have an email account at Revolution Growth Fund and one for my Charitable Foundation.

I literally receive and try to respond to now more than 600 emails per day – every day – 7 days per week; 52 weeks per year.

But I also get email at Facebook – which to be honest – I hardly read or respond to; and comments on my blog; and stacks of physical mail as well. I read tweets on Twitter too. And I blog.

I could do nothing but react and respond to you all. No meetings; no sleep – no work; just read and respond to mail and requests.

For the Caps sometimes – I literally get the same folks emailing me at my personal account; my Washington caps account; then to be safe – they send me the message at Facebook mail; and then leave the message as a comment on my blog. And for good measure – they then go to other blogs and leave comments that they have sent me the following email and expect me to respond .Ok. Ok. Ok. I got it.

I apologize to several of you about the comments section on my blog – we are redoing a bunch of sites and crafting a local network – and the comments section are undergoing a redesign; I think we are now good to go again on comments on my blog; I know to a couple of folks – leaving messages on my blog is considered a birth right – and I apologize for this inconvenience – as you all know – I read and respond to my email so that outlet for you was still intact.

In the New Year – I will have to reconsider how I handle this avalanche of communiques to me; I too have to break the cycle of email addiction. Thank you.