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@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ The main idea is not to be a *slave* of devices and to have the control about wh
 
 ### Work / Personal time
 
-On my previous company I have a smartphone for evertyhing involved with the job: I had my professional email there with the installed Outlook application and the authenticators apps required. Sometimes I received some call or several times I use the phone to join for some conference because at that particular moment Skype/Teams/Webex/Zoom was down. But having the email in the mobile device it was too easy to check anytime (including outside working hours) if there is something new or something that I have to take care off. 
+In my previous job I had a company phone device: I had my professional email there with the installed Outlook application and the authenticators apps required. Sometimes I received some call or several times I use the phone to join for some conference because at that particular moment Skype/Teams/Webex/Zoom was down. But having the email address in the mobile device it was too easy to check anytime (including outside working hours) if there is something new or something that I have to take care off. 
 
-As the mobile device was a Windows Phone, at some point the Outlook application was not working and I could not have the email synced in the phone. This means the only way to check the email was using the work computer or adding the email to my personal phone. So I decided to check the email only when I had the work computer running... and that was fine. Other time we could discuss about how email interrumptions break your work, but at moment let's park it here.
+As the mobile device was a Windows Phone, at some point the Outlook application was not working and I could not have the email synced in the phone. This means the only way to check the inbox was using the work computer or adding the email address to my personal phone. So I decided to check the inbox only when I had the work computer running... and that was fine. Other time we could discuss about how email interrumptions break your work, but at moment let's park it here.
 
 Regarding work computer, I have only what is required for working. The only *license* that I allow to myself is to have Spotify app installed with my personal account because I am using it all the time. Rest of programs that are on the computer are related for my activity: IDEs, Office 365/Gmail apps, etc. No access with my personal account to other things such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Telegram, Whatsapp, YouTube, banks, etc. If I want to sign up in these place I will use my personal computer or more specifily, a different computer than the one I use for working.
 
@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@ In addition, I spend time to disable notifications in apps and sounds. For examp
 
 No notifications from messaging apps and I have silence all the groups I am. The reason is clear: to decide myself when I want to see something instead of being the phone brings the attention to me.
 
-And of course, if there is an app that I don't use I've prefer to remove it. iOS has a nice feature which is that it *soft remove* the application to save space. But if is not used, I've remove it.
+And of course, if there is an app that I don't use I've prefer to remove it. iOS has a nice feature which is that it *soft remove* the application to save space. But if is not used, I'd prefer to remove it.
 
 ### Personal computer
 
-Same as phone, no popups no sounds. I close the applications that I'm not using at the moment; as an instance, I close messagging apps such as Telegram when I don't want to be distracted instead of using the "do not disturb" mode.
+Same as phone, no popups no sounds. I close the applications that I'm not using at the moment; as an instance I close messagging apps such as Telegram when I don't want to be distracted instead of using the "do not disturb" mode.
 
 Time ago I had my desktop with many things and without any kind of organization, as the extreme to have the screen full of icons for the main monitor and even for the secondary one. I've changed that. Now my desktop is clean, no files, no folders. Only if I have to do something I have the folder there and then, or I remove it or I move it to its right place. Also, I clean the downloads folder with some frequency. 
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ to read them again, so why having them increasing my email list?
 
 The idea is to keep the emails to 0 without reading it. That notification hurts!
 
-Another important think is the consideration of an email and messages. They are an **asyncronous** way of communication, which means that it is feasible that you are going to wait time until you answer them. How much time? Could be hours, days. The one you think reasonable. If something is **urgent** use the phone. If not, it is something that can wait.
+Another important think is the consideration of an email and messages. They are an **asyncronous** way of communication, which means that it is feasible that you are going to wait time until you read/answer them. How much time? Could be hours, days. The one you think reasonable. If something is **urgent** use the phone. If not, it is something that can wait.
 
 Same idea with social networks. There are plenty of groups in Telegram/Discord/Slack than can be interesting, but does it worth it to be there forever and have >1000 messages pending for reading per group? More than the group is silenced I evaluate if that group provides me value or not. Let's say that I'm in a group more than 180 days without checking the messages. Probably the best option is to get out instead of ignoring it.
 
@@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ So as the general rules that I've applied for handling the notifications are:
 - Use *do not disturb* mode / whatever name has in your OS, specially during spare/out of work time.
 - Remove any subscriptions/maillist/groups not used in your email and social network groups.
 
-Just remember that everything are tools for helping you doing things. If you realize that you are living for your social networks / email etc, please consider to stop, breath, think and discover that your real life is outside of them.
+Just remember that everything are tools for helping you for doing things. If you realize that you are living for your social networks / email etc, please consider to stop, breath, think and discover that your real life is outside of them.