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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Emails...

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Jarred Land said:
...we both have Galaxy Notes in our pockets with HD 5.5" screens and quad core cpu's that have twice as much CPU power than our mighty G5 towers did when we started RED...
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Nice to read this. I hope RED never locks me into the Apple ecosystem. That'd be traumatic. Hoping the Meizler module ipad support also migrates to a non-ipad mobile platform sometime in the future.

edit: to bring this back to topic, Jim should project all the emails via RED's 4K projector. Atleast, it'll ease the experience of wading thru them. ;)
 
My best advice is to preserve your sanity and marriage:

Simply WAIT till the counter hits 10,000 in your Inbox, then hit that little checkbox for SELECT ALL, then hit the DELETE button.
Your sanity has been preserved...

All kidding aside- Simply stop reading it daily, archive email and treat email as searchable records...

If something was really important, you'd have already searched for your item of interest or someone would have called you by the time that counter hit the 10,000 mark...


PS. The SEARS tower, for many decades the tallest building in the World,
was built without a single email being sent or received and still stands today...
Also, the Sun, Moon and Earth all do their thing daily without a single email exchange,
so stop worrying over upsetting the Email Gods- they can wait till reading digital bits are convenient for you...
 
You need to redefine yourself and redefine your priorities, its healthy. not dangerous nor damaging. Only rewarding, if you dare :)
Nothing good comes out of beeing a slave of frustration, you can only do it till a point where the Rubberband glides off in one end and it flies off in a split second, this is a classic.
Solitude is fine, its not arrogant nor is it letting anyone down.
Make a statement and stick to it.
Dont reply everyone eventhough its your passion, think about what you are doing and how many new players comes aboard, it will escalate, dont fight it you cannot win.
Give yourself some peace, let the mails roll. Noone dies except you and your partner. who will benefint? noone.
 
Stivan Widick said:
I'll try to help ease the load a bit and just start sending my fan mail only to Graeme. (:
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I'm trying to work on some rather gnarly, but important math here, and I have a hard enough time just keeping up with spam filtering (because there's always ones that get through), never mind answering people's questions. Of course, the code isn't working, so I'm taking a quick RedUser break in the hope that when I look back at the code I'll spot some silly mistake and get it going.

I guess I might be able to cope with fan mail though. I'll teach the kids how to read and respond to emails so don't be too upset if the response doesn't quite make sense....

Graeme
 
I think an automated response to emails received on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays saying you are offline until the following day... please resend your email tomorrow.

If it is truly important to the sender, they will resend it. If it was just a spur-of-the-moment impulse, they will forget about it. And that at least gives you 3 (or however many you want) to be without emails. I think that could help you look forward to getting the emails that come on the designated days, rather than feeling a duty to open and read all emails.

And if it is imperative the message be delivered on your off days, your inner circle will have your cell number.
 
Graeme Nattress said:
I'm trying to work on some rather gnarly, but important math here, and I have a hard enough time just keeping up with spam filtering (because there's always ones that get through), never mind answering people's questions. Of course, the code isn't working, so I'm taking a quick RedUser break in the hope that when I look back at the code I'll spot some silly mistake and get it going.

I guess I might be able to cope with fan mail though. I'll teach the kids how to read and respond to emails so don't be too upset if the response doesn't quite make sense....

Graeme
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Ah, the Eureka Principle, as Isaac Asimov called it. When faced by a particularly stubborn problem, Asimov would engage in a simple activity in order to let his brain work subconsciously - like Archimedes taking a bath to calm his mind after trying to figure out the gold in the crown conundrum. Rather than the bathtub, Asimov often went to the cinema. Graeme goes to redusers. ( :
 
And of course, as soon as I looked back at the code, the answer was obvious and progress is once again being made.

Graeme
 
Jannard said:
OK... I can officially no longer keep up.

This has now become ridiculous.

In the past 7 years, I have sent over 140,000 emails. About 56 a day ( seven days a week) on average. I have received almost 5 times that amount. Do the math. And Jarred gets more than I do...

It is accelerating. If I go offline for one day... I am behind 400 emails.

That means that I officially no longer have a life. I am a slave to emails.

How did this happen?

Please help me out...

Jim
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Charge a dollar to contact you... Weed out unserious inquiries mayhaps?
 
Jarred Land said:
That's the problem.. they are not :(

I couldn't imagine someone trying to filter emails for either one of us... the dynamic unique relationships we have with all of you and our other customers and then everyone else is pretty damn hard to keep track of alone.

And then there are the internal emails.

Sometimes Jim and I will go into a meeting for an hour, and come back to 100 emails each.

Good thing this is so much fun :)
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I am extremely impressed with how hard you guys work, and your dedication to personal relationships with your customers!
 
Jannard said:
Please help me out...

Jim
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I get a shit load of emails at work too...


Two email accounts:
1. Your personal email account. Don't share this with people, other than insiders that need to get a hold of you and do not waste your time with cute cat emails
2. Your public email account.

On the public account, have someone (or some software) to aggregate the messages and give you reports. (10 emails are about Dragon, 50 are about Scarlet, 14 are about Epic and 470 are pictures of cats). Prioritize your communications based on the reports. I think you would be best served by just having a blog that you talk about what you think is important and what the people emailing you are talking about the most.

Have someone answer your email, and forward you the important stuff.
 
Jannard said:
In the past 7 years, I have sent over 140,000 emails. About 56 a day ( seven days a week) on average. I have received almost 5 times that amount. Do the math. And Jarred gets more than I do... It is accelerating. If I go offline for one day... I am behind 400 emails. That means that I officially no longer have a life. I am a slave to emails.
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Well, I'd say the same thing I would to any successful businessman: you have to stop treating mail with an OCD attitude, start delegating more, and have assistants prioritize your mail so that only the top 10% or 20% require your personal attention.

I tend to doubt Steve Jobs spent even an hour a day answering emails, and I think he still accomplished a lot in his time, micro-managing a lot of aspects of Apple. Dave Allen's best-selling book Getting Things Done goes into some of this in detail. Not everything he says will apply to you (or me), but there are some helpful hints there.

I think at his peak, Bill Gates had six secretaries/assistants, and at one point mentioned that two of them did nothing but manually get rid of all the spam, every day of the week. My guess is that everybody who's connected to the net suffers from an information overload to some extent, at every level of life and business.
 
Steve Jobs answered every email he got... so I'm told. He answered every one of mine along with taking every meeting I asked for.

There is a drive to stay connected with our customers. If we lose that... then we are just like every other big company.

I'll stop complaining now. I should be rejoicing that so many actually care about what we are doing.

Jim
 
You know... end of the year... it will get worse.

Santa Claus will be jealous as he won't receive as many letters...

"Dear Jim Jannard...

I behaved very well this year... therefore... please... please... pretty please with sugar and sprinkles on top... I want a RED for Xmas."
 
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