Email: The Variable Reinforcement Machine

Email Isn’t The Thing You’re Bad At

You and me, we’re bad at a lot of things. But email isn’t one of those things, no matter how much it seems like it.

Less stress, more productivity: why working fewer hours is better for you and your employer

There’s always too much work to be done on software projects, too many features to implement, too many bugs to fix. Some days you’re just not going through the backlog fast enough, you’re not producing enough code, and it’s taking too long to fix a seemingly-impossible bug. And to make things worse you’re wasting time in pointless meetings instead of getting work done. Once it gets bad enough you can find yourself always scrambling, working overtime just to keep up. Pretty soon it’s just expected, and you need to be available to answer emails at all hours even when there are no emergencies. You’re tired and burnt out and there’s still just as much work as before. The real solution is not working even harder or even longer, but rather the complete opposite: working fewer hours.

Email filters: Stay organized with these best practices | Proton

Learn how email filters can create better email organization and workflow, and increase your productivity at work.

Email filters: Stay organized with these best practices | Proton

Learn how email filters can create better email organization and workflow, and increase your productivity at work.

Mailing-List 2.0: Discourse

You got a few people working on something and you seek for an efficient way to communicate (ideas, news, messages, etc.) online. This guide gives you an overview about what you could expect in the past and what you should ask for nowadays. Mails According to Wikipedia, the first mail was sent in 1971. The access to a network we call Internet today was quite limited in these early days. Users have been mostly universities, and I guess, not everyone, but mostly the STEM disciplines Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. So it comes at no surprise that mails are perceived as inconvenient and antiquated.

Slack didn’t kill email — and it might have made it stronger

Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback

Email and calendar made better

Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.

Email and calendar made better

Fast, private email hosting for you or your business. More productive, lightning fast, simple and built to save you time.

Case Study: Email Startups

Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.

Grammarly acquires AI email client Superhuman | TechCrunch

In its announcement, Grammarly said it wants to build AI agents for emails using Superhuman's tech.

Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

On the rise of newsletter production, consumption, and monetization, and how email is one of the most powerful and resilient publishing platforms.

I automated my job (and it made me a better leader)

Explore how my day as a senior leader looks now that I use 40 automations to help, and learn more about some of my favorites.

Why kernel development still uses email

In a world full of fancy development tools and sites, the kernel project's dependence on email [...]

Getting to the Top of Mind: How Reminders Increase Saving

We provide evidence from field experiments with three different banks that reminder messages increase commitment attainment for clients who recently opened commitment savings accounts. Messages that mention both savings goals and financial incentives are particularly effective, whereas other content variations such as gain versus loss framing do not have significantly different effects. Nor do we find evidence that receiving additional late reminders has an additive effect. These empirical results do not map neatly into existing models, so we provide a simple model where limited attention to exceptional expenses can generate undersaving that is in turn mitigated by reminders. Data, as supplemental material, are available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2015.2296 . This paper was accepted by Teck-Hua Ho, behavioral economics.