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Taking even these 80 emails in 15 minutes that evaded filters, if that’s a consistent rate, that’s 2.8 million per year. … how does one person get within even

Taking even these 80 emails in 15 minutes that evaded filters, if that’s a consistent rate, that’s 2.8 million per year. … how does one person get within even a couple of orders of magnitude of this? If these are even vaguely real emails, surely dealing with this is a full time job for at least a dozen people. (And even that would give less than 30 seconds per email: 12 [people] × 37 hours/week × 48 weeks ÷ (80 emails / 15 minutes × 1 year) ≈ 27 seconds per email.) I just can’t grasp the scale or where it would be applicable.

csydas 4y ago
Yes, there is a lot of automation that comes through also and stuff that gets routed, and a lot gets sorted. I'm not sure what else to say besides I have many facets to my work. I can't give a guess on how many are "real" emails, but I have a ton to pay attention or to get to the right team/person and to keep running track on. Keep in mind that this is not unique conversations, just raw email counts. I couldn't begin to guess how to figure out how many are unique threads as subjects always change, threads merge, etc. Thread A might involve me on the first message, get delegated by the 2nd, and then it's just there for the subsequent 30 messages. If it's relevant for me and my team, we have a tag for update posts and it gets a special highlight so I can TLDR and catch up on dozens of emails in a few short bullet points Thread B might be a long running project where I need to know the history, but there's no involvement until later on, and once tagged, then I start to enforce sorting mechanisms that help me. There are plenty of tricks for effectively sorting this stuff and indexing it in your mind/note planner for fast reference. The subset of emails that get my full attention for every single word is very small and it's an extremely protected space.

csydas 4y ago

Yes, there is a lot of automation that comes through also and stuff that gets routed, and a lot gets sorted. I'm not sure what else to say besides I have many facets to my work. I can't give a guess on how many are "real" emails, but I have a ton to pay attention or to get to the right team/person and to keep running track on. Keep in mind that this is not unique conversations, just raw email counts. I couldn't begin to guess how to figure out how many are unique threads as subjects always change, threads merge, etc. Thread A might involve me on the first message, get delegated by the 2nd, and then it's just there for the subsequent 30 messages. If it's relevant for me and my team, we have a tag for update posts and it gets a special highlight so I can TLDR and catch up on dozens of emails in a few short bullet points Thread B might be a long running project where I need to know the history, but there's no involvement until later on, and once tagged, then I start to enforce sorting mechanisms that help me. There are plenty of tricks for effectively sorting this stuff and indexing it in your mind/note planner for fast reference. The subset of emails that get my full attention for every single word is very small and it's an extremely protected space.