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The biggest issue is you have to work out how important email is to what you do + achieve. If you are a developer, it's probably a distraction. If you are a f
by dotBen 16y ago
The biggest issue is you have to work out how important email is to what you do + achieve. If you are a developer, it's probably a distraction.
If you are a founder, entrepreneur or similar then your (filtered, non-spam, non-bacn) email is contextual to your business relationships and actually prioritizing your time to properly tend to it is important.
This whole "I have over 1000 unread emails, oh my!" crap just feels like bad email management and poor time keeping.
I filter away all twitter/facebook/plancast auto-notifications, intentionally avoid mailing lists unless there is an RSS option and keep very on top of spam using similar email address tricks (I tend to use <foo>@<mydomain> but it's the same deal).
So with the Spam and Bacn taken care of, I actually am left with a very manageable amount of ham ('real') email every day and so I set aside the appropriate amount of time to deal with it because it is all high-value messages.
Things work out fine, relationships are founded/maintained and I don't have to email people automatically telling them I couldn't be bothered to read their email in 14 days - which would make them look unimportant and me look like a bit of a douche.
- user24 16y agopoor time keeping? From the man who invented digg? ;) sorry for the flipancy but I couldn't resist.
- webwright 16y ago"This whole "I have over 1000 unread emails, oh my!" crap just feels like bad email management and poor time keeping." I'd wager he gets hundreds of emails per day from random people, some of whom could actually be important. This is in addition to internal email lists at his company, VIPs, etc. I get dozens and I'm quite a bit less public/important than Kevin Rose. Say he gets the following daily: 30 messages from people he knows 150 emails from fans, strangers, some of whom might be worth responding to 50 internal company emails that merit SOME attention That's 220 emails per day to process. Say 150ish on the weekends, so he has 300+ to process every morning. Now say he takes a 1 week vacation. Call it an average of 1 minute per email for processing (some are near 0, some need to be scanned, some need to be carefully read, some require short replies, some require longer replies). That's 4+ hours per day. What he needs is an assistant to go thru the "I don't know you" pile to see if there is any "ham".
- dotBen 16y agoSo this wasn't specifically aimed at Kevin - I know Kevin and he's very much the man in demenad. And anything but a douche. I was more talking from the perspective of 'regular folk' implementing his methods into their own work-stream. What is appropriate for him is not appropriate for the majority. I know a number of 'normal' folks who also have the "1000+ unread emails in my inbox" issue who are not a Kevin Rose/Scoble/etc... I don't see their excuse.
- dtby 16y agosome of whom I hope you meant some of which.
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