I got an email today (which is totally perfect and appropriate for this post) from Medium on various tech stories. One of them is titled We’re Buried Under Email, A Monster of Our Own Creation.
It ends, naturally, with this, which amuses me more than it should:
I’ve been mulling over the whole email thing myself, and my solution lately has been to approach it mercilessly. If I’m getting some kind of flyer that isn’t immediately relevant to me, I unsubscribe or block (blocking only when unsubscribing “mysteriously” fails). This alone has made things more manageable. But it does seem that email is stuck in this weird place, where the general internet is evolving (or devolving) and email mostly stays the same. I don’t have a solution to “fix” email, I’m just content to cut down on what comes into my inbox for now.
