> I get just as much email as you - promise! - but I really do try to respond to everything. I receive about 20 emails a day (to my personal email -- even disr

> I get just as much email as you - promise! - but I really do try to respond to everything. I receive about 20 emails a day (to my personal email -- even disregarding work) that are deserving of a well-thought-out response, and aren't part of an existing thread or relationship. Of those, I may respond to 2-4. Any more would simply be too large a drain on my time; email already occupies several hours of my day, and the payoff just isn't there to justify increasing that, since it would come at the expense of other things I feel are higher priority, like spending time with the people I care about. I've actually been thinking about performing an experiment: you can pay me $X to send me an email. If $X > $Y, I'll guarantee a response (and a thoughtful one, at that), and I'll respond to the current highest paid email first, in case of inundation. You could still send me email via normal channels of course, but this would be a way of jumping over the normal hurdles I use when prioritizing (do I know you personally? do we have a business relationship? do I know you from HN? do I know your work? etc). Has anyone done this or considered it?