{"id":2071,"date":"2021-07-06T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/in-defence-of-email-the-tech-marvel-we-couldnt-do-without-joanne-mcneil\/"},"modified":"2021-07-06T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:38:11","slug":"in-defence-of-email-the-tech-marvel-we-couldnt-do-without-joanne-mcneil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/in-defence-of-email-the-tech-marvel-we-couldnt-do-without-joanne-mcneil\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence of email, the tech marvel we couldn\u2019t do without | Joanne McNeil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t blame the medium for our inbox anxiety. The more fundamental issue is how work dominates our lives<\/p>\n

I am about to defend the seemingly indefensible: email, the inbox, all of it. And yes, I\u2019m offering this case at a time when it might sound especially unlikely. This is the season of holiday responder messages and out-of-office replies. The back-and-forth of delayed communications makes email an especially draining project during the summer.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not unfamiliar with the paralysing anxiety that settles in when I see a notification that my unread messages total some ungodly number. I probably owe an email to a percentage of people reading this. (Sorry! Things are a bit busy!) And I\u2019d love to never see the words \u201chope this message finds you well\u201d again in my life. But the decentralised wonder that is email isn\u2019t the cause of my stress; the real problem is work and too much of it, as relayed through these messages. When it comes to communications systems, email \u2013 a technology that\u2019s 50 years old this year \u2013 is hard to beat.<\/p>\n

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\nDon\u2019t blame the medium for our inbox anxiety. The more fundamental issue is how work dominates our lives
\nI am about to defend the seemingly indefensible: email, the inbox, all of it. And yes, I\u2019m offering this case at a time when it might sound especially unlikely. This is the season of holiday responder messages and out-of-office replies. The back-and-forth of delayed communications makes email an especially draining project during the summer.
\nI\u2019m not unfamiliar with the paralysing anxiety that settles in when I see a notification that my unread messages total some ungodly number. I probably owe an email to a percentage of people reading this. (Sorry! Things are a bit busy!) And I\u2019d love to never see the words \u201chope this message finds you well\u201d again in my life. But the decentralised wonder that is email isn\u2019t the cause of my stress; the real problem is work and too much of it, as relayed through these messages. When it comes to communications systems, email \u2013 a technology that\u2019s 50 years old this year \u2013 is hard to beat. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t blame the medium for our inbox anxiety. The more fundamental issue is how work dominates our lives I am about to defend the seemingly indefensible: email, the inbox, all of it. And yes, I\u2019m offering this case at a time when it might sound especially unlikely. This is the season of holiday responder messages …<\/p>\n

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