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March 8, 2006 Marissa Mayer prefers Pine to Gmail [mayer]Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google confesses to CNN Money that she does
by scateu 11y ago
March 8, 2006
Marissa Mayer prefers Pine to Gmail
[mayer]Marissa Mayer, VP, Search Products and User Experience at Google
confesses to CNN Money that she doesn't use Gmail for her business mail.
"I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it. I use Gmail for
my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as
many as 700 to 800 a day, so I need something really fast. I use an e-mail
application called Pine, a Linux-based utility I started using in college. It's
a very simple text-based mailer in a crunchy little terminal window with
Courier fonts. I do marathon e-mail catch-up sessions, sometimes on a Saturday
or Sunday. I'll just sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight."
Pine is a mail program developed at the University of Washington. It has a lot
of keyboard shortcuts and countless ways to sort, shuffle, and sift through
your email.
- naner 11y ago10 to 14 hours of email? I think I'd pull a Knuth or look for another job, that's crazy.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- fintler 11y agoHer compensation was $117 million over 5 years. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/adding-up-marissa-mayers-pay-at-yahoo/ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/adding-up-marissa-may...
- barsonme 11y agoI'm sorry -- what do you mean by "pull a Knuth"?
- Tomte 11y agoHe processes mail by stack: have his secretary print out emails and put them together with snail mail on a stack. Look at the stack every few months. Urgent mail is expedited at his secretary's discretion, of course.
- ascagnel_ 11y agoThis requires a secretary (or at least an AI that's able to prioritize as well as a human). GMail is getting there by filtering out obvious cruft (spam filtering, flagging as important, moving social and promotional emails into their own tabs, etc), but falls down in terms of prioritizing non-obvious cruft.
- suprfnk 11y agoProbably this: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
- barsonme 11y agoInteresting read, thank you!
- arcticfox 11y agoPeople often talk about Mayer as the pinnacle of work ethic, but it often sounds to me like she needs more "work smarter, not harder". 10-14 hours of email once a week sounds like a remarkably bad idea to me. (Yes, I know she's also phenomenally successful, but so are MANY more people that don't share her methods)
- leephillips 11y ago"People often talk about Mayer as the pinnacle of work ethic" Not this guy, who worked at Google from the start: http://www.amazon.com/Im-Feeling-Lucky-Confessions-Employee-ebook/dp/B004X7SYQI/ http://www.amazon.com/Im-Feeling-Lucky-Confessions-Employee-...
- SZJX 11y agoI don't think if you work like crazy 24-7 there's any "ethic" in it. I'd say it's more of some sort of morbidness. Human beings are not meant to live this way, and exemplifying such an attitude really makes a perverse and toxic culture.
- drauh 11y agoShe should have been using (n)mh.
- Tomte 11y agoLinus Torvalds uses Pine, too.
- scateu 11y agoFrom: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [git pull][resend] Input updates for 2.6.22-rc7 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:11:27 UTC Message-ID: <fa.IgmANxZoEvqGUWkoZEe414vIYlQ@ifi.uio.no> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > I'm constantly surprised by just how _many_ ways MUA's find to screw up. > > 'pine' actually seems to work pretty damn well once you disable the > flowed-text "feature". Yes. And 'alpine', it's modern version, does even better, but you also need to make sure to disable "downgrade-multipart-to-text". I've been using alpine for a while now, and it's nice to see it be utf-8 capable and able to handle other charsets well. So as a former pine user, I can recommend upgrading. Linus
- fanf2 11y agoRecently he has been using gmail
- hellofunk 11y agoPine was the defacto email client for so many universities (including mine); these kids today don't know what they were missing! It was a rare window of human Time On Earth where every single person at my massive nearly 100K-size college used Control-X to send every email.
- endgame 11y agoOh yeah, I had an MS-DOS build of PINE that got me through uni. After loading the packet drivers, I had just enough conventional memory to load the mail client as well. Good times.