How To Write An Email Intro Request

Multiple times a day, someone in my network asks if I’ll make an intro to someone else. I’m almost always happy to do this and, if not, I will explain

July 16, 2020 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How To Deal With People Asking For Intros To Me

I got the following note from a friend this morning. Hey. Over the past 6 to 12 months, I seem to be getting more requests from individuals in the City-1,

March 21, 2019 · 2 min · Brad Feld

The Superhuman Change To My Current Email Tools

It’s 2018. I’m still an incredibly heavy email user. It’s the primary tool in my workflow and has been since the early 1990s. I’ve tried a lot of different things

October 23, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

How To Deal With Email After A Vacation

As I’m already getting lots of out of office messages for people taking this week off, I thought I’d revisit an approach to how to deal with email after a

July 2, 2018 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Sanebox: Make Email Great Again

Unlike the person with a similar slogan, this one is highly accurate. Sanebox does indeed make email great again. I’ve been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then

June 27, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Help Me Understand The Value of Slack Instead of an Email List

Before you have an allergic reaction to the title of the post and respond with “you are stupid”, bear with me for a second as I set up the problem.

March 16, 2016 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Email Conventions and Why Email Clients Suck

There are two common email conventions in my world that I use many times a day in Gmail. I don’t remember where either of them came from or how much

September 3, 2015 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Cross Dressing With My Email

Here’s a perplexing thing to ponder. After trying virtually every email configuration on iPhone and Android devices, the best experience that I have had so far is using Microsoft Outlook

August 15, 2015 · 1 min · Brad Feld

Why Isn't PGP Built Into Gmail?

An increasing number of companies that I work with are using PGP to encrypt certain email. While they are comfortable sending a lot of email unencrypted, there are periodic threads that

June 24, 2015 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Human Router

Amy and I had a wonderful week off the grid in Paris. No phone, no email from Friday night 5/8 when I boarded the British Airlines flight in DIA until

May 18, 2015 · 3 min · Brad Feld