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wow, so he was and is writing a minimum of 50 up to 200 emails per day ? Insane, that would take up my whole day, but since hes mostly managing his company his job probably is mostly about writing stuff to people, but still amazing to keep that up for so long.


Wow! Just wow! So, he's reading about 500 emails per day, and writing over 100 emails per day, and spending about 10 hours per day on the phone, and has an average of 10 meetings per day... those numbers just don't add up. The meetings are obviously held over the phone, and he's apparently writing and reading emails while being in those meetings, but I still don't understand it. Are all his emails one-liners that don't require any thought or research? Is he some sort of genius multi-tasker? How can it possibly work?!


He says a lot of the emails were automated--system status emails during the launch of alpha and so on.


Those are the inbound emails, not the outbound.


He perhaps uses email (in part) the way you use instant messaging, testing, or twitter.

And a 10 minute chat may count as a meeting.




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