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only 8,886 emails this year

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Nichinan, Miyazaki, 2019.12.31

My multi-annual plan to reduce emails has continued. Looking back, I count only 8,886 emails on my personal and business addresses. Over the past three years it's looked like this:

2017: 18,000+

2018: 11,800

2019: 8,900

The difference between 2017 and 2018 was almost 40%. The drop between 2018 and 2019 was not quite 20%. And of course the difference between 2017 and 2019 was just over 50%. Hooray!

But I fear that 2020 will not have more than perhaps a 900 email reduction if those rates hold true, but that would leave me at 8,000. Yet that would be less than half the rate of 2017.

rand()m quote

You can sometimes fool the fans, but you can never fool the players.

—Jack Stack