I've Declared Email Bankruptcy (Again), but This Time I Have a Plan
In 2004, Lawrence Lessig sent out a mass email to his entire contact list saying, more or less: “Sorry, I deleted all your emails without reading them. If it was important, send it again.” He had spent 80 hours that week trying to empty an inbox cluttered with emails dating back to 2002. He was getting 200 emails per day. Lessig wasn’t disorganized. He was a Law Professor at Stanford. And even so, email defeated him. ...