Email (let's drop the hyphen)
I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.
—Umberto Eco
Email is good for maintaining a direct relationship between readers and writers, but it kinda sucks as a place to read. When I’m checking my inbox I’m in a mode where I want to bat away everything as quickly as possible in order to get to inbox zero. I’m psychologically in a state where everything feels like a chore. Putting great writing there fro... See more
Nathan Baschez • Substack’s Ideology
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.
About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
El gran científico de la computación Donald Knuth abandonó el correo electrónico en 1990 diciendo que, si bien es “maravilloso para aquellas personas cuya función en la vida es estar en la cima de las cosas... mi función en la vida es estar en la base de las cosas”, realizar investigación fundamental que requiere “largas horas de estudio y concentr
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