I've cut out all distractions in my life till there's nothing left.
What's a guy that supposedly in the peak in his career earning potential doing with virtually no inbound emails. I get nothing. I sometimes read spam just to pass time. "Oh, wow, who would fall for this?", I mull. (I don't read enough fiction to know how to handle punctuation around quotes).
I get my email dopamine hits from customer service replies. My loneliness has crossed over to the digital realm as I look forward to the comfort of interacting with the poor Financial Times lady that can't seem to get my daily newspaper delivery address right. I add exclamation marks like we are old friends--"No worries!"
My business email is limited. Yeah, I somehow don't get a lot of work-related emails. I'd say this is by design but I suspect I'm just not that busy. The office is small so most issues can be sorted out in person, and we don't have much middle management to manage process and stuff. Over the years I've also indicated my disdain for long well-crafted emails, which I have found to be a waste of time. So maybe everyone just stops bothering. A finance manager once wrote a whole presentation on why she thought one of her colleagues needed to leave. It was pages long like she was submitting a government tender with nonsense agenda pages and introductions and conclusions, and she got it bound in a folder. I was horrified.
Other potential reasons: A lot of communication has moved to Whatsapp. English isn't their first language, so they'd rather not write emails. I myself don't send many emails, so I don't get many replies. I think I'm just not that busy.
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