Turns Out I'm Petty
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Turns Out I'm Petty
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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
... See morefrom The Folksonomy Edition by Colin Nagy
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- meanwhile, email often frustrates me because there is TOO much time to polish, it feels like I can't just say what's on my mind and work things out, whatever I send feels "final" in some sense I really dislike
from L.M. Sacasas on Instant Messenger Over Instant Messenger by Uri Bram
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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.
from About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
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- Or take HEY. HEY has tens of thousands of paying customers. For us that's a win. For Google/Gmail it would be a huge failure. They need a whole lot more to make something worth it. We need a whole lot less to make it a spectacular success. HEY has tens of thousands of users. Gmail has a billion. So are we "losing" to Gmail? Or are HEY and Gmail bot... See more
from You only compete with one thing
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- What’s Google’s motive for providing free email? Is it that they just want people to be able to communicate easily with one another, or is it that a major advertising conglomerate with a twelve-figure annual revenue stands to benefit tremendously by consuming and using all of your inbound and outbound communication? In comparison, Fastmail is a com... See more
from Neatnik Notes · Motive as a filter
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