Sent emails...

Its our way of life, we write hundreds of emails every week, last night i wrote 71 in the last hour before I left work. So far since my birthday on October 8th of 2006, I've written 20,267 emails. Correspondence has risen so much, we are able to stay in touch with a thousand people, yet sometimes its easy for us to be a mile wide and an inch deep. Then there's our spouse/family. I have yielded more joy from ending early and spending more time with my wife than I used to. I know emails are a slight competitor to her at times. We as businessmen, get torn from our passion to stay in touch with our clients, colleagues, and friends. I wonder how many hours those have taken to write, not to mention reading the emails that have been sent to me.

Here is my rough calculation:

(20,000 emails) / (Last 16 months) = 1250 emails a month

(1250 emails a month ) x (Average of 2 minutes to write an email) = 41.6 hours a month/2 hours per working day

(50 hours a month) x (12 months/1 year) = 500 hours or 20 days per year writing emails to people.


I just find this interesting. This year, I have vowed to write at least 10 handwritten letters per month. The fast I type, the worse my handwriting gets, but that all changes this year.