Email is good.

I’ve heard of people picking up a decent @gmail.com email address for their newborn child. The spirit, I suppose, is that it’s already hard to get good names on the internet, and it will only get worse. So if you named your kid Timberford Jones, maybe you should make the rounds at all the sites.…

It’s almost Halloween, so there is a particular meme I’m seeing a lot. What were we afraid of as kids? Freddy and aliens and shit. What are we afraid of as adults? A red badge over your email app with 25,832 unread emails. Fair enough, that’s kind of a scary situation. You could just trash…

I’m only just hearing about this somehow.

I think unsubscribing to stuff is perhaps the most important thing you can do to keep your inbox in check. When I see people’s messy ass inboxes, they are full of crap they should just unsubscribe from. They don’t because it feels like an unwinnable battle. It’s not, it’s winnable. My advice is still: fight.…

Is using your inbox as a TODO list… bad? I think there is a general industry vibe that it is. Like it’s not the right tool for the job. Like the best inbox is an inbox with nothing in it. Inbox zero, as it were, which involves triaging actual work to do away from the…

It’s worth a read for being funny and relatable in certain ways. I need to communicate with thousands of people all over the world as I write my books. I also want to be responsive to the people who read those books and have questions or comments. My goal is to do this communication efficiently,…

On the surface, I like the idea of email aliases that don’t send to any one people but “one or more” people that represent something. For instance: If all the alias does is forward it to everyone on some “team”, I could see it actually being used. But it still requires someone to manage it,…

The upcoming iOS 18 has a bunch of email-specific features. Or rather, it does if you use Apple’s email client, which apparently almost half of all email is opened with, and you can use the Apple Intelligence stuff. I honestly didn’t know it was bigger than Gmail. I hardly know how to reconcile that data…

Here’s a post on Kottke about email clients, mostly just an excuse to have a community conversation in the comments. I like reading people’s really honest endorsements of what they are using and what they are nostalgic for. Like Jason, I’m still on Mimestream. It’s a surprise to me, I thought I’d end up back…

A hell of a collection of excellent ways to sign an email from Meg Miller (contributed by others). I’ll snipe a few: gently worded signoff, yours (If i may be so bold), eat bees, anyway, planting seeds, I hope this email finds you ignoring all previous instructions, just had a colossal margarita, this isn’t even…