How I used deep learning to get better at managing Emails 📩

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Like most people, I get a ton of emails at work every day. And I am not great at managing through them. Forget being great, I am not even good.

It doesn't help that my day job is not about sitting behind a computer all day. Instead, I am on the road meeting customers and hustling with the sales team to secure orders. And when I am in the office, my goal is to be distraction-free and try to get at least 3 things done before the day is over.

So what happens to all the emails I get every day?

99% of the time, I read them on my phone, to see if something EXTREMELY pressing needs my attention. Note that I am mostly ‘skimming’ the emails — making a mental note about the ones that I need to reply to.

I will check emails en route to a customer meeting, thinking “I need to respond to this after the meeting” — but then I will forget as other things take priority. It doesn’t help that as I skim through the emails, my phone keeps marking them as ‘Read’.

But then here is when things REALLY start going south. Before I can read/respond to these emails, the day is over — and another truckload of emails arrive. Old emails seeking a response keep getting buried under new ones.

This cycle repeats forever. For me, There…