3-2-1: On managing expectations, and the importance of trial and error
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3-2-1: On managing expectations, and the importance of trial and error
Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
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- While email's continued evolution is significant, what it has retained from the old web sets it apart from the other pretty, convenient apps. Email is an open, interoperable protocol. Someone can use Google's service, spin up a server of her own, or send messages through Microsoft's enterprise software. And yet all of these people can communicate s... See more
from Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet by Alexis Madrigal
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A few years ago, drowning in email, I successfully implemented the system known as Inbox Zero, but I soon discovered that when you get tremendously efficient at answering email, all that happens is that you get much more email. Oliver Burkeman
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- For all the changes occurring around email, the experience of email itself has been transformed, too. Email is not dying, but it is being unbundled.
from Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet by Alexis Madrigal
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