colinwalker
colinwalker

When I returned to work on Monday I had over 11,200 unread emails waiting for me. Over the past four days I have whittled these down to those I absolutely need to process, moving them to a "triage" folder as I went.

That folder contains just 50 mails.

Fifty!

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40Tech
40Tech

@colinwalker Holy cow. Were you out for a while, or do you just get slammed with email?

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@40Tech It was 5 months 😮 but, yeah we get slammed as well.

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kitt
kitt

@colinwalker impressive filtering!

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smokey
smokey

@colinwalker So in any given month, you only get 10 emails that are actually important? :-)

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@smokey Well, some of them are important at the time but only because of the immediate context. Once that’s removed...

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smokey
smokey

@colinwalker Ah, right.

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gerwitz
gerwitz

@colinwalker patiently waiting for context to change is my favorite method for handling important emails.

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