Comments on: 105,633 unread emails.

By: Michael Bernardo

Michael Bernardo — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:42:00 +0000

I found an unread New Years greeting from a colleague dated 2003 but before I replied to it, I Googled his name just to see how he’s doing. Sadly, I discovered that he passed away just 3 years ago at the age of 45. :(

By: Dave Troy

Dave Troy — Tue, 28 May 2013 23:54:00 +0000

If you’d like to make short work of those emails, give Mailstrom a try (http://mailstrom.co). Here’s what LifeHacker said about it — http://bit.ly/mailstrom-lh

By: somebody who liked your post

somebody who liked your post — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Liked your post. I was looking for a way to get rid of all the unopened email without making a terrible mistake. Regarding the musings about being Jewish, I have the same confusion about what to make about my 1/2 Lebanese DNA. I just ignore it most of the time and pull it out for entertainment or other purposes from time to time.

By: jmdanmar

jmdanmar — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 03:46:00 +0000

You are so cool. You are a fount of fascinating trivia like no one else I know. Maybe I don’t know enough people but that’s another issue. :-)

I love it. Keep it up.

By: Dji

Dji — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:11:00 +0000

Looks to me a good chunk of your reader are ADD/ADHD!

Do you have ADD James?

By: Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva — Wed, 25 May 2011 04:33:00 +0000

This post made me laugh out loud. Very loud. :)

By: Cynical Investor

Cynical Investor — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:34:00 +0000

My previous comment does not show up now. I thought it was quite strange then when I wrote it as it was the only one.

Nevertheless I”ll do it again.

James,

You should use http://www.attn.me. People would bid to have their e-mails read by you.

I am quite surprised that site did not take off. The market is there (i.e. your 100,000 unread e-mails, I am sure some people thought their e-mails were so important they would have paid you to read them). I had the same idea some time ago, but as you have said quite a few times ideas are worthless. Execution is what matters.

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:42:00 +0000

James, I sent you an email last night. What do you think are my odds for a response?

By: Ashleyscwalls

Ashleyscwalls — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:16:00 +0000

I love this because I have actually been going through my old emails from years ago. Beleive it or not, they serve as inspirtation for some of my blogs as well as resources for things to look into.

Thanks for letting me know I am not the only person that does this.

By: Brooke Farmer

Brooke Farmer — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:52:00 +0000

Oh my God. I thought I was bad. This article made me feel so much better about my email existence.

I think I have five email addresses. I’m not sure anymore. Each email address has between 33 and 274 unread emails.

To be fair at least 20% of these unread emails are from one of my other email addresses reminding me of something I should do (that I didn’t and don’t want to go back to look through all those jobs I should have applied for, literary journals I should have submitted to, opportunities I should have cased, etc. Because, obviously, it is a depressing exercize in self deprecation.)

Thank you for making me feel better about my lack of ambition.

Not ambition so much as time and energy really.