Don't send that email – saves me a few hours per week

After co-founding Mathbreakers I would sometimes get into long, complicated email chains with my cofounder, arguing about which path to take or what was the best decision at this point. Often I will find myself having received an email from my co-founder, friend, or family member that is asking me to "weigh in" on a future decision as if it's time critical and will matter tomorrow.

Before hitting reply I now ask myself -- what if I don't?

Nine times out of ten I'm able to say, "I don't need to even have this conversation. It's not time critical, and when it IS time critical we can discuss it then, but chances are good it will never even get to that point."

So I delete my draft and move on with my life, all the time that email chain would have sucked up now freed up for playing Go or doing more development work.

I wish someone had told me not to send those emails years ago, I could have saved many hours of headaches talking about problems that weren't even relevant.

Has anyone else experienced this evolution of how you reply to (or don't) to emails?