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We don't know how many emails a day he was dealing with. Clearly, he wasn't ignoring email over this period, so many he was already keeping up with 30, 50, 100
by aquark 16y ago
We don't know how many emails a day he was dealing with. Clearly, he wasn't ignoring email over this period, so many he was already keeping up with 30, 50, 100, 200 emails and this was just the excess.
- jacquesm 16y agoThat could be, he mentions 'unread', but reading 30 emails per day on top of whatever he already read is: - if it was low, not a big deal - if it was high, percentage wise not such a big issue So it would have to be somewhere in the middle, say around the 30 to 60 emails on top of the ones he's already receiving for it to be a 'big deal'. And even that does not seem to me to be an extraordinary high volume. The thousand backlogged emails is a big deal, that will take you two days at least to get rid of. But the majority of those probably does not require an answer, and if it hasn't been read in 30 days it probably wasn't very urgent either and you may be able to lose it entirely without it being a big deal. People should not become a 'slave to their inbox'.