Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going to Talk About

BY JEN SNOW

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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About

  • “Important mainly because of the words in the message.”
  • “Important mainly because of the people in the conversation.”
  • “Important mainly because of your interaction with messages in the conversation.”
  • “Important mainly because it was sent directly to you.”
  • “Important because you marked it as important.”
  • When Gmail annotates e-mail by algorithm, the phrasing it uses is sometimes poetic, if not always accurate.
  • It is useful, I suppose, at times, to have an unknown entity define or remind me of my “priorities.”