Why MG Siegler "Quitting" Email Means Nothing and Why It Won't Work for the Rest of Us
Posted: July 7, 2011 Filed under: General Leave a comment »
MG Siegler’s announcement that he was “quitting email” elicited quite a few responses from both sides of the spectrum. Many people seemed to think it was a good idea while others thought it was a “dick thing to say”.
The problem with someone like MG making this kind of sweeping statement is that it means next to nothing for 95%, if not more, of everyone else out there grinding it out with email and whatever other form of communication or platform you can use to connect with people.
MG’s auto-response for anyone who does email is, “No longer responding to email, if you need me, you’ll figure out a way.”
Hmm, is there some way to qualify a “first-world problem” even more? “Elite first-world problem” maybe?
He goes on to say:
Yes, this sounds sort of like a pampered problem and perhaps somewhat of a dick move — I should be so lucky to get so many emails, right? But the reality remains: email is an absolute nightmare in my life. I dread it in the morning, I dread it more right before I go to bed. It’s always in the back of my mind, lingering.
You know who doesn’t have this problem? Construction workers, janitors, Wal-Mart employees. Maybe he should try that out one of those jobs for a month or so and see how that works out as part of his little “experiment”.
Maybe it’s the current economic client and knowing how many people are trying desperately to eek out a living by any means necessary but it really rubs me the wrong way to see someone who’s job it is to write about tech and to be in touch with people on a certain level to just up and declare something like this. It reeks of pretentiousness.
You know, I plan on cutting back on yachting for a month. It’s such a bore to constantly have to put the sails up and down.
Come on MG, you have dream job man, suck it up and deal with the email until the tech company you work for decides that they’re phasing out emails for the entire company you just come off as sounding pompous and out of touch.
Recent Comments