When
I first heard about Mail Goggles—the program that forces you to answer
math problems during pre-set hours of the night before sending email—I
was super excited. I've sent one too many drunk emails in my day.
That's a lie, I've probably sent 100 too many drunk emails in my day.
Responding to a colleague's email after a party one night, I laid out,
in detail, how I talked my way out of a ticket for public urination on
the way home. I've invited ex-boyfriends over, responded to Craigslist
personals ads and once even quit a job via a drunken email. While that
last one probably needed to happen, it seemed I'd been waiting for Mail
Goggles my entire adult life.
Though I'd trained myself over the past year or so to save anything
questionable as a draft until morning, I immediately set about
activating Mail Goggles. Well, sort-of immediately. It took me a while,
and a few Google searches, to figure out how to do it (it's under
Google Labs, by the way). I finally set it up so that I would have to
answer intermediate math problems Thursday through Sunday from midnight
to 5 a.m.
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