It started as an idea. Well, a Tweet, really. What if I just stopped responding to email?Sure, at first it was said in half-jest after a few drinks. It was me channeling my inner Peter Gibbons — “I’m just gonna stop going” — while I’m sitting here in Washington D.C. completely buried in email after not getting to it all day. But the motivation behind the Tweet and the idea is very real. Email is the absolute devil. And the only way to not be corrupted is to… run away. So that’s exactly what I’m going to do.
For the rest of this month, I’m not going to respond to any emails. None.
Yes, this sounds sort of like a pampered problem and perhaps somewhat of a dick move — I should be so lucky to get so many emails,Canon mv850i battery right? But the reality remains: email is an absolute nightmare in my life. I dread it in the morning, I dread it more right before I go to bed. It’s always in the back of my mind, lingering.
Following my initial Tweets, Colleen Taylor of GigaOm sent me a link to this old post in Emily Magazine that pretty much sums it up:
100,000 seconds is almost 28 hours. In other words, I’ve probably wasted a day of my life hitting that stupid button.
It’s both sad and true.
And I’m hardly alone. The tweets I sent out on the topic tonight were met with near Dell Inspiron 640m ac adapter unanimous agreement (I’ll paste a some of them below). It seems that most everyone I know wants to quit email. They’re just afraid.
The truth is that I’m afraid too. What happens if I just stop responding? To be honest, I’m not really sure. I think it’s one motorola mts2000 battery of those things where if I thought of all of the potential ramifications, I wouldn’t do it. So I’m not going to worry about it. I’m just going to do it.
If nothing else, it will be an interesting experiment. We all talk about our hatred for email — and we have for years Dell Inspiron 1420 ac adapter — but few people actually quit. Some try half-heartedly.Others are sure a solution is always just right around the corner. But I’m done waiting and making excuses. I’m just going to do it.
Will I have CANON POWERSHOT G5 battery to cheat? I sure hope not. That would be pretty disappointing. But I really don’t think I’ll have to.When people at parties ask me what I do I think I am just going to start saying that I’m an “emailer.”
My plan is to still check my inbox from time to time just Motorola ntn7143 battery to make sure that there isn’t some emergency. And I’ll forward things along as need be (without typing anything beyond an email address). But for everything else, I’ll simply set up Dell Vostro 1510 battery an auto-responder along the lines of “No longer responding to email, if you need me, you’ll figure out a way.” (Kudos to Shervin Pishevar who wanted to test a similar idea earlier this year, but I chickened out.)
I’ve seen the future of messaging — it looks a lot like Facebook Messages. More specifically motorola p1225 battery, it looks like the new version of Facebook Messages that the company began rolling out two weeks ago. But I’m not sure that the future is Facebook Messages. At least not for me. Because canon nb-4l charger that’s simply not how I have used Facebook and it’s too hard to switch my patterns now. And that’s why Gmail has a huge opportunity. We need a Gmail Lite.
That’s the key to all of this. It’s not that I really want to blow people off. It’s that email blows Canon 5d MK2 battery.There has to be a better way. And I think there is! If people really need to get ahold of me, they’ll know how. There are many options. And all of them are better than email in its current state (come on Gmail Lite, come on!).
And yes, I know there are keyboard shortcuts. But the percentage of people who use those is likely pretty small. Plus, on Gmail, the Dell Vostro 1400 battery keyboard shortcut to send something involves hitting two keys: tab then enter. If you could cut out the tab part, you’d still be saving about a half second. Again, per message. It adds up.
That doesn’t mean I’ll respond to all of these alternative communications either — I suspect they’ll build up quickly too. But at least it will be a nice big barrier to entry that will help to alleviate my inbox overload. And the great thing nikon coolpix 5200 battery about some of the other messaging platforms out there is that many of them follow the “stream” idea. That is: when you send a message, maybe there will be a response, maybe there won’t. With email, a huge problem is that people expect a response every time. With tweets, people don’t.
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited. I have absolutely no idea what will happen next. I’ll respond to some of the emails I currently have in my inbox, but then it’s lights out for the rest of July. Will the world end? Will TechCrunch implode? I suspect not. I think that the ultimate result of this experiment will be much less shocking: fewer emails will be sent.
I’m not even talking about loading times or anything necessarily related to the technology behind Facebook Messages. What I’m talking about is the feature that allows you to respond to a message simply by typing in the tiny box below it and hitting return to send. Some people hate this idea because they want the return button to insert a carriage return like the old days — and that’s fine, that’s still an option right next to the box you’re typing in — but I love this quick-send ability. Love. Love. Love it.
For the rest of this month, I’m not going to respond to any emails. None.
Yes, this sounds sort of like a pampered problem and perhaps somewhat of a dick move — I should be so lucky to get so many emails,Canon mv850i battery right? But the reality remains: email is an absolute nightmare in my life. I dread it in the morning, I dread it more right before I go to bed. It’s always in the back of my mind, lingering.
Following my initial Tweets, Colleen Taylor of GigaOm sent me a link to this old post in Emily Magazine that pretty much sums it up:
When people at parties ask me what I do I think I am just going to start saying that I’m an “emailer.”The famous cliche is that every second counts. But it’s a cliche because it’s true. Every second does count. At first, you might think it’s ridiculous that I’m jumping for joy because Facebook Messages is saving me one or two seconds by not having to use the send button. But those seconds really do add up. I wonder how many times over Dell Inspiron Mini 1011 battery the years I’ve hit that send button? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
100,000 seconds is almost 28 hours. In other words, I’ve probably wasted a day of my life hitting that stupid button.
It’s both sad and true.
And I’m hardly alone. The tweets I sent out on the topic tonight were met with near Dell Inspiron 640m ac adapter unanimous agreement (I’ll paste a some of them below). It seems that most everyone I know wants to quit email. They’re just afraid.
The truth is that I’m afraid too. What happens if I just stop responding? To be honest, I’m not really sure. I think it’s one motorola mts2000 battery of those things where if I thought of all of the potential ramifications, I wouldn’t do it. So I’m not going to worry about it. I’m just going to do it.
If nothing else, it will be an interesting experiment. We all talk about our hatred for email — and we have for years Dell Inspiron 1420 ac adapter — but few people actually quit. Some try half-heartedly.Others are sure a solution is always just right around the corner. But I’m done waiting and making excuses. I’m just going to do it.
Will I have CANON POWERSHOT G5 battery to cheat? I sure hope not. That would be pretty disappointing. But I really don’t think I’ll have to.When people at parties ask me what I do I think I am just going to start saying that I’m an “emailer.”
My plan is to still check my inbox from time to time just Motorola ntn7143 battery to make sure that there isn’t some emergency. And I’ll forward things along as need be (without typing anything beyond an email address). But for everything else, I’ll simply set up Dell Vostro 1510 battery an auto-responder along the lines of “No longer responding to email, if you need me, you’ll figure out a way.” (Kudos to Shervin Pishevar who wanted to test a similar idea earlier this year, but I chickened out.)
I’ve seen the future of messaging — it looks a lot like Facebook Messages. More specifically motorola p1225 battery, it looks like the new version of Facebook Messages that the company began rolling out two weeks ago. But I’m not sure that the future is Facebook Messages. At least not for me. Because canon nb-4l charger that’s simply not how I have used Facebook and it’s too hard to switch my patterns now. And that’s why Gmail has a huge opportunity. We need a Gmail Lite.
That’s the key to all of this. It’s not that I really want to blow people off. It’s that email blows Canon 5d MK2 battery.There has to be a better way. And I think there is! If people really need to get ahold of me, they’ll know how. There are many options. And all of them are better than email in its current state (come on Gmail Lite, come on!).
And yes, I know there are keyboard shortcuts. But the percentage of people who use those is likely pretty small. Plus, on Gmail, the Dell Vostro 1400 battery keyboard shortcut to send something involves hitting two keys: tab then enter. If you could cut out the tab part, you’d still be saving about a half second. Again, per message. It adds up.
That doesn’t mean I’ll respond to all of these alternative communications either — I suspect they’ll build up quickly too. But at least it will be a nice big barrier to entry that will help to alleviate my inbox overload. And the great thing nikon coolpix 5200 battery about some of the other messaging platforms out there is that many of them follow the “stream” idea. That is: when you send a message, maybe there will be a response, maybe there won’t. With email, a huge problem is that people expect a response every time. With tweets, people don’t.
I don’t know about you, but I’m excited. I have absolutely no idea what will happen next. I’ll respond to some of the emails I currently have in my inbox, but then it’s lights out for the rest of July. Will the world end? Will TechCrunch implode? I suspect not. I think that the ultimate result of this experiment will be much less shocking: fewer emails will be sent.
I’m not even talking about loading times or anything necessarily related to the technology behind Facebook Messages. What I’m talking about is the feature that allows you to respond to a message simply by typing in the tiny box below it and hitting return to send. Some people hate this idea because they want the return button to insert a carriage return like the old days — and that’s fine, that’s still an option right next to the box you’re typing in — but I love this quick-send ability. Love. Love. Love it.
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