How many emails do you get in a month? – Geoffrey Long

Geoffrey Long

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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.

In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »

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May 10, 2004
6:05 pm

How many emails do you get in a month?

So I just got my new PowerBook back from the shop. Yes, friends, my new PowerBook just spent a month in rehab because, apparently, its logic board went bad. Yeesh. Luckily, it was under warrantee, but I still had to make do with my old machine for a long time, which sort of kneecapped my productivity there for a while. I was just lucky said old machine still worked and was only mildly broken, not completely destroyed.
Words of wisdom: always keep a backup computer. Never, ever sell your spare.
Anyway, I use a POP client for my email. I know, I know, a webmail client would be much more useful, yadda yadda yadda. Whatever. One way or the other, I just set about downloading a month’s worth of email. This is not something you ever want to see:

AUGH!

Note that “2295 new messages” alert is after Mail.app’s spam filters had their way with things. Another 2231 messages were sent straight to my junkmail, for a grand total of well over four thousand new messages. Jeebus!
UPDATE: So I whittled down the number of must-reads to 632. That means I get over 20 pieces of important mail a day. No wonder I always feel so behind! 🙂

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