It almost seems like there are fashions in email. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about handling email stress or even resorting to the nuclear option of email bankruptcy. Most of our fascination with email (and ways to handle it) seems to be driven by the common perception that we’re drowning under an avalanche of the stuff. Indeed, in some circles it’s fashionable to boast about the size of one’s inbox or the number of hundreds of messages that one gets per day.
And yet, on the other side of the coin we read about people recommending doing without email entirely for critical communication. And more and more prominent digerati are writing about email reduction techniques. Perhaps having the biggest inbox is no longer the passport to geek street cred that it once was.
So, where do you stand, members of the web working community? Do you plow through hundreds of emails every day, constantly fighting the good fight to stay on top of things? Or have you ruthlessly eliminated chatter to get your stream down to a scant handful of quality items that you can actually deal with? How much email do you need these days to get the job done right?
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