Email overflow

Today I have played morning soccer, been at work and at a group-meeting (related to an University project). The thing is, I haven't really had chance to answer my emails. Looking into my inbox, I see around 100 new emails (where around 40 of them need a responding, because I have postponed some of my earlier emails).

Let's normalize and say that an email takes around 10 minutes to answer (some of them requires some doing), some simple math tells me how much time I will spend:

• 40 emails * 10 minutes each = 400 minutes = ~6 hours and 30 minutes

That's a lot of time. Anyway, if you get short emails from me (or my emails are delayed), then you know why :)

A while back I read about Marissa Mayer's email usage [Google's vice president for "Search Products & User Experience"]:

"I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it. I use Gmail for my personal e-mail -- 15 to 20 e-mails a day -- but on my work e-mail I get as many as 700 to 800 a day...

snippet from Marissa Mayer prefers Pine to Gmail.

700 emails per day!? (700 emails * 1 minute = ~11 hours). I wouldn't like to be in her shoes, that's for sure.