jack

My inbox is down to two emails. There's other things I need to do[1], but the inbox represents that which I haven't yet made a high-level decision about what sort of thing I need to do :) It's not quite empty, but close enough.

I wonder, every so often I make this "inbox empty" post. Are they coming closer together? If I drew a graph, when would I achieve singularity[3] -- having a daily emptied inbox. Before or after I die? Or will some better communication technique take over next decade?

[1] Other folders contain emails which can be processed in a fairly automatic way, eg. fup[2] contains things that I've sent, but should periodically check if they've been replied to or need a folow-up email. These used to either clog my inbox, hanging around but not being anything I could do anything about, or be archived and then forgotten.

[2] I realised "Follow-up something by checking I've done everything I can, and seeing if there's anyone I need to prod" was a concept I needed a word for, so I abbreviated it 'fup'. Although I'm sure there's a pre-existing word, geek-joke or management-buzzword. Other analagous abbreviations I've occasionally been caught using include:

to fup -- to follow up
to fup -- to fuck up
to lup -- to look up
to gup -- to get up :)

[3] "Transcend"