Email is not a messaging protocol, it’s a to-do list, right? Or at least my inbox is a to-do list and email is the protocol for...

Email is not a messaging protocol, it’s a to-do list, right? Or at least my inbox is a to-do list and email is the protocol for putting things on it. Here’s the problem, it is a shitty to-do list. Any one of you can put something on my to-do list and I don’t want that. Paul Graham of YCombinator on Email at PyCon 2012. Video and text.