Comments on: Killing Email: How and Why I Ditched My Inbox

By: es_

es_ — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:55:49 +0000

And Twitter in exchange for e-mail is so zen? IMHO it’s just changing from e-mail to Twitter, so it’s not much change. IMHO Twitter is even more time consuming because it’s real time, you have to check it often to be up-to-date with Tweets, while in e-mail you just get what was send directly to you (there’s less of noise).

By: naked2nirvana

naked2nirvana — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:23:42 +0000

Hi Leo, wow this thought is like so surreal, no emails, especially on the receiving end. What’s interesting is the fact that with all of us digitizing every communication and thought, you move away from its key aggregating source the humble inbox. Out here in India, even the mobile wars(both handsets and service providers alike), all have a common selling point, email on the go, stay in touch for emotional and functional reasons.
An interesting stand, but I’m going to reserve my comments once you’ve come through your cold turkey, unscathed. :) Good luck, mate!

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By: eternallygeek

eternallygeek — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:50:39 +0000

The concern I would have with this technique is that it puts your communication situation in the hands of a third party website. Can you be sure that Twitter will be in existence in a few years? Will it still be free?

Yahoo profiles/Groups were the “thing” when I really first started out on the web. Then the MySpace craze, which seems to have died out some. Now, it is the Twitter/Facebook fad. Eventually these are going to change in some way if not completely disappear. In my 11 years on the internet, the one thing that always been there for me consistently: my own domain name and my email.

I would be terrified to put my sole communication method in the hands of a ‘fad’ service. Sounds like a single point failure there, if one thinks about it in engineering terms.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:12:15 +0000

I pretty much agree with everything that “Don’t be a snob Leo” said. I used to read the blog everyday…now I check it about once a month. It’s all about Leo, Leo, Leo…Leo’s life, how he wants to make it easy, how he wants to streamline everything. The email thing doesn’t phase me because I’ve never emailed you, but it does seem very snobbish.

You can subtract one reader from the list. I may not be the only one.

By: Jose Luis

Jose Luis — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:06:10 +0000

My goodness! This is extreme. I was thinking to declare myself in email bankruptcy but killing email is beyond.

I will follow your outcome

By: Asad

Asad — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:18:27 +0000

Your experiment sounds like an interesting way of reclaiming one’s time. I had a number of e-mail accounts and cut back to two accounts. I wonder if you could inspire a group of people from a variety of professions to replicate your experiment.

By: MJK

MJK — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:02:37 +0000

Agreed – Email is wasting my life, too.

Can you post what your autoresponder looks like?

By: Don't be a snob, Leo

Don't be a snob, Leo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:13:45 +0000

Leo, please look at yourself!

Simplicity, the thing you advocate, has gotten the better of you.

More than anything, recently, between the lines, you seem like you’re losing direction – where to take the blog next, what exactly is your philosophy… you say you let things develop on their own, but that’s just saying you don’t know where to go.

And so you’re shoveling nonsensical content and experimental ideas onto your blog that have less and less spirit in them and that read increasingly like Cosmopolitan’s 10 Ways how to please him in bed.

You have recently changed to a simpler layout, you want to get physically rid of some of your “distractions” – it’s all symptomatic of what’s happening – you are losing direction and trying to simplify the appearance (blog skin), or the factors (eliminating e-mail), just because you think simple and less is better.

You simplify and simplify… until there is no meaning left.

But then, when confronted with complexities of a problem that doesn’t seem to get solved by a simple move (because the move is TOO simple), your explanations are increasingly in the area of “I can’t please everyone, I have my own life to think of, that’s how I do things, it’s just something I decided for myself because it makes me happy”.

Like it or not, you’re this close to becoming a snob.

By: Jai Kai - Sharing Success

Jai Kai - Sharing Success — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:52:13 +0000

I am interested to see how long this will last. I limit myself to 20 min of email a day… Also I have been trying to post comments on various posts and very rarely do they show? I even check a day or 2 later and they are still not there.Why is that…I will be surprised if this post shows!