"You can afford to spend 30 seconds every 10 minutes to deal with emails."
As others have mentioned, this would destroy programmer productivity and flow.
It seems the author is picturing a scenario where you can just read an email and fire off an answer. In my case, an email may require an hour of research or a day of work to answer. If I'm already working on something, just having the new task mentally on my stack is going to distract me from my current task and thus delay me getting to the new one. Or else I'll switch to the new one and completely lose my place in the current one.
Infrequent email checking is much better for my productivity.
As others have mentioned, this would destroy programmer productivity and flow.
It seems the author is picturing a scenario where you can just read an email and fire off an answer. In my case, an email may require an hour of research or a day of work to answer. If I'm already working on something, just having the new task mentally on my stack is going to distract me from my current task and thus delay me getting to the new one. Or else I'll switch to the new one and completely lose my place in the current one.
Infrequent email checking is much better for my productivity.