A world without email 📧
Reimagining Work in the Age of Overload (or the hyperactive hive mind) | #39
Email is making us miserable. By trying to be more efficient, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to work. Cal Newport.
I have a love-hate relationship with email. Love the convenience of it as a messaging tool but hate stuff piling up and having to go through it all.Â
6083 in my personal Gmail account 😱Â
Over half the world population uses email in 2021. The total number of business and personal emails sent and received per day will exceed 319 billion in 2021 and is forecast to grow to over 376 billion by 2025. Despite the growth of chat apps, we still use email, and you need an email address for most online activity. I spend most of my day in work inboxes – it’s where the magic happens – sign off, editing, documents because it’s faster and in real-time—the ping-pong game…like a slot machine.Â
The overall feeling is low-level anxiety like my work is never done.
• We check our emails every six minutesÂ
• Knowledge workers receive and send an average of 126 emails every dayÂ
• We sp…