Re:The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
by dbmikus on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:01AM
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A counter to this is Stripe's practice of ensuring that almost all emails end up on a mailing list so they aren't siloed just to the participants. I can find and search for relevant conversations that I wasn't first party to.
The key then is to make sure your inbox only contains items directly to you or from specific mailing lists.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
by drivers99 on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @09:09AM
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This probably sounds crazy but I barely even read email anymore. Everything real is handled in chat and group calls now, so I don’t have time to organize/clean that stuff up anyway. I’m changing jobs this week and leaving behind about 13,000 unread. Work has gone from asynchronous to synchronous.
Re:The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
by Angostura on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:02AM
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This has been one of the main benefits of Teams for me, and I have pushed hard to get large group e-mails moved to Teams.
You only have to @mention the people who really have to see. All the other's who would have previously have been cc:ed can simply review the messages if they are interested at their leisure, withou being pinged.
The amount of useless emails has gone through the roof, with a lot of the content being managers reminding people they are still there.
Everyone cc's everyone now. If someone wrote an email to the ALL distribution group back in the day and there were more than 2 replies to that email, someone would immediately lose their shit and tell everyone to stop replying-all. Now those reply-all email chains happen weekly, with junior VPs laying hot takes all over the place.