Email is good.

I like this little cute message: Although… in my case, it’s not actually a real indicator that I have email at any of my main inboxes. If I type mail, I can see the messages. Since I’m on macOS I figured it would be whatever Mail.app is seeing, but that’s doesn’t seem to be the…

What we’re calling AI now already has been involved with email. Spam! Filtering spam is an AI job, and it’s been killing it for quite a while now. I hope email providers keep at it. Then there is AI at the writer and reader levels of email. Which… also is related to spam. If I…

I read a thing once (I really should find it) about DevOps and notifications (I think) where the author said something like: Email is a terrible notification system. The only thing worse than email is everything else. The point was like… you should probably have phone or SMS-based alerting systems for DevOps problems, but that…

Obvious? Probably. That’s part of the reason I published my thing going through my own inbox. Just as a little social confirmation that my inbox situation isn’t that different than most others, which from the feedback I heard is true. I also think this is a potential problem with email innovation. This conclution is easy…

One of the things I’d like to root out about people’s relationship to email is whether having email hanging around in your inbox is actually a problem or not. Is there a fairly universal answer to this? Are people with 10,000 emails in their inbox bad at email? As in… Are they stressed? Do they…

Outlook is a major player in email. But what does “Outlook” mean exactly? It means email software from Microsoft, but it’s certainly not one thing. Once upon a time there was just one ‘Microsoft Outlook‘ but these days there are at least ten current programs or services under the ‘Outlook’ name * and two programs called “Outlook for Windows”.…

The article from The Cut is making the rounds. People are loving arguing about the strongly-worded advice laid out in it. Everyone has their own hell yes’s and hell no’s. Here’s a hell yes from me: 94. It’s okay to email, text, or DM anyone at any hour. There’s nothing worse than being woken up…

Here’s me! This is my business inbox that really isn’t very busy at all, and it’s very heavily skewed toward… garbage? Perhaps I’m a bit salty there, but I suspect most of us are when we’re getting solicited constantly.

I saw this in r/AssholeDesign: A user in the comments verifies that Yahoo and Gmail do it too. In the case of Gmail, in the promotions tab: I’ve never seen it. Not sure why. Maybe because I pay for Gmail storage or something and that makes me a paid customer and they don’t show them…

When I think about other people and what their email-at-work situation is like, I imagine them on email threads with their co-workers and responding to requests from their bosses or managers. But I wonder how accurate that is? Is that just some weird manifestation of my mind? I’ve literally never had a professional job like…