Inbox out of control? Your Not Alone

The FT has an interesting article about the challenges of email management which features Marc Smith from Microsoft Research.

The line I really like is this one:

“No one is giving me more heartbeats per day or more minutes; there is no Moore’s Law for humans. I am not becoming twice as intelligent and half as cheap; if anything the cost is going up and I’m slowing down. Given the real limits of human cognition, the machines – who have, after all, gotten us into this mess – are going to have to get us out of it.”

Sounds like he is describing me.