A: “What’s your email?”
B: “It’s just my name @ Gmail.”
A: “You young kids and your crazy email names. Back in MY day if you didn’t have four numbers and a video game reference in your email you just weren’t 1337.”
I hate getting email. But I recognize that the problem is not email as a technology; the problem is *people wanting to talk to you*. Email is the *least* annoying way for people to contact you, so it’s the most popular, which is why you have so many emails, which is why, paradoxically, it *feels* so annoying. But, what, you want everyone to start texting you? You want them to send you LinkedIn messages? You want them to *call you on the phone*?
What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou


