Sign of the Times: Declaring Email Bankruptcy.
Yesterday I sat down for two hours and simply deleted emails. The whole time I was thinking, This is miserable... I should be outside swimming or hiking or hanging out with Joe Massey drinking beers in hippyville swapping NASCAR poems. Then, today, Tyler Doherty told me about how more and more people are simply declaring email bankruptcy — writing everyone on their email list with the note, "If you've sent me an email (and you aren't my wife, partner, or colleague), you might want to send it again." This is a grand idea! I bet it's going to take off like wildfire.
Ah, the beauty of an empty inbox...
Here's the article in ValleyWag.
2 comments:
I hope you and Tyler don't declare email bankruptcy! Or maybe I count as a colleague and won't be deleted... ;)
My own email problem is that I get too attached to nice things people say and keep hold of a bunch of emails I should probably just delete. But awww I'm sentimental about nice things people say.
Mandy,
You definitely count as a colleague!
Besides the avalanche of work emails, my problem is not writing people back immediately... There are a number of people (John Phillips is at the top of my current list!) that I haven't emailed, because I want to sound intelligent and well thought out, but can't quite muster this during the regular work week, especially with the constant interruptions of dorm duty, etc. that goes along with boarding school life. --though John, if you are out there, school is ending soon!
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