Is There Life After Email? Yes, And It's Amazing  Scott Berkun,
author of The Year Without Pants, on his time at, a company that
--pinch us--doesn't rely on email.  I worked at, the 15th most
popular website in the world to write The Year Without Pants, a
book about what we can learn from the amazing and progressive
culture they use to get work done. One major challenge I faced
there was learning how to work without email. That's right.
While all employees had email accounts and were free to use
them, they rarely did. I didn't either: 95% of the email I
received while employed there was from people at other
companies. How, you may ask, can any modern organization
function without email, much less one as successful as I'll
explain everything you need to know.  But first it's important
to recognize that despite our constant complaints about endless
piles of useless e-mail, most people I tell about's email
liberation are dubious. We have a deeply engrained fatalism
about alternatives, which is odd given how pride