There was a bill introduced into New York City council this year (the “Right to Disconnect” Bill) that would make it illegal not to send email after hours, but to require employees to respond do it after hours. “There is no line in the sand that separates the normal work hours from personal time because…

For myself, I’m a little skeptical of “just hide it from myself” to solve addiction issues. I would have put the Oreos on high shelf and lost 50lbs a long time ago if that worked. But I think there is some evidence that it does work for some personalities. This browser extension is in that…

OMG. Scott is right, it’s perfect because nobody knows what it means and nobody wants to sound dumb asking, so nobody does and we can all just move forward. If you were forced to define “out of pocket”, it probably essentially mean “whatever I was just gone and not responding to stuff for a while…

There is no source quoted here, so massive grain of salt. But even with regular levels of observation of human beings in your life, I think this feels about right. Email. Everybody has it. Everybody engages with it. Particularly emails from one person to one person.

It seems to me we really are in a email newsletter renaissance. Perhaps in the last three years I’ve seen loads of people start newsletters. Even just personal newsletters where the point is updates about their personal lives. Like in lieu of a personal blog. The most common reason I hear is that it feels…

I’ll take too many exclamation points over too few any day.

I really don’t know. Maybe close to 10 years ago I had a friend who hated email so much that nearly any alternative was preferable. To her, DMs on Twitter (must have been early days for that!) were better. Perhaps the short and threaded nature of them was appealing. More likely, the idea that you…

Even bolder than replying to a year old email without even acknowledging any time has passed.

My suspicion is that filtering isn’t the answer here. That’s just too many damn emails and a lot of it needs to get cut off at the source. I’m starting to think that for an average busy person, that 100 emails a day is doable, with perhaps 25% directly actionable. That’d be more like 3,500…