Cal Newport
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The reality is people actually don't care.
The biggest benefit they often get by sending the email is that something got off their plate.
They don't often aren't going to recognize that it took a while for you to respond.
So I'm not a big believer in autoresponders unless your office absolutely demands it.
I'll get back to people when I get back to them.
I also don't preemptively apologize, right?
If they're like, hey, where were you?
I'll be like, oh, I'm away.
I'm on sabbatical.
I mean maybe if like it's been a week or two, I'll be like, hey, sorry for the delay.
I'm on sabbatical and then I'll answer.
And no one cares.
Like they're probably happy that it took a week or two because that's a week or two.
They didn't have to deal with whatever the thing was they were emailing you about.
I'll check my email once a week for sure, my Georgetown email.
Maybe twice.
That's it.
No autoresponder.
But it will be nice to have a little bit of reduced message volume.
All right.