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> Do people really want to be pulled off the thread immediately and not acknowledged/thanked further? I have no idea how many people share my preference, but y
by exolymph 9y ago
> Do people really want to be pulled off the thread immediately and not acknowledged/thanked further?
I have no idea how many people share my preference, but yes, I want to be taken off the thread and I don't care about being thanked separately. My inbox is taxing enough to manage already.
- gnicholas 9y agoI figured this would be the case for some folks. Do you mind sharing a bit of additional info so people can better understand what traits lead people to feel this way? Do you think this is due to your job role (entrepreneur/VC/angel/other), the number of emails, the total number of emails you get, or something else?
- afarrell 9y agoI share exolymph's preference, though more weakly than I used to. I'm just a software engineer, but I've long found the number of emails I get frustrating. Each email is an additional task, and I have often felt like I'm drowning in a firehose of life-administrivia, even before I get to the challenge of communicating with people I care* about and responding to them well. This preference has weakened because for the past 3 months I've been practising an improved the way I manage email. I now have a separate explicit triage step and a bookmark to the specific Gmail page which lists untriaged email. * yes, I do genuinely care about these people. If you're thinking, "If you really cared about them, you would have responded already", then your experience of the world and of tasks is vastly different from mine.
- exolymph 9y agoI'm a journalist so I get about a zillion PR pitches every day. My email experience is by far not the worst out there, but it's enough to annoy me. I get ~60-100 emails per day.