Every day, but really every day, there is someone who writes to me on WhatsApp or (which is worse) he calls me, just to tell me that “I sent you an email, did you read it?”. As if the Internet also included telepathy, as if we were equipped with a chip capable of automatically reading all the emails we receive.
I’ve been for some time I only read emails twice a day. As if they were delivered to me from an imaginary postman. As if they were the letters of the past. It is not snobbery, it is self-defense. When email really came into our lives, several years after it was invented, it was a liberation: liberation from stamps. From letterboxes. And with infinite expectations. At that time, days went by, you never knew how many, before your letter reached the recipient. With email, everything became instantaneous. The problem is, we’ve started writing too many.
And if one were to interrupt what he is doing every time he receives an email, during the day he would do just that: read emails. But in this way concentration and creativity are eliminated. This precious immediacy has therefore become a problem that many discuss in search of solutions. but yet all attempts to slow down the digital lifeto foster the birth of a Slow Internet as we have Slow Food, are shipwrecked.
Some time ago, such he had invented a startup that allows you to send and receive emails once a day. She didn’t go very well. But it wasn’t a bad idea. The digital postman in my inbox only knocks twice a day. And he manages to live better.