Overall, I’m intrigued and like this general line of thought. A few thoughts on the post:
If you’re using earn.com, it’s not really email anymore, right? So maybe it’s better to think about this as about “online messaging”.
Another (complementary) way to improve email is to make it like facebook where you have to agree to connect with someone before they can message you.
Like many ideas about using $$ as a signal, I think it might be better if we instead used a domain-specific credit system, where credits are allotted to individuals at some fixed rate, or according to some rules, and cannot be purchased. People can find ways of subverting that, but they can also subvert the paid email idea (just open all their emails and take the $$ without reading or responding meaningfully).
Overall, I’m intrigued and like this general line of thought. A few thoughts on the post:
If you’re using earn.com, it’s not really email anymore, right? So maybe it’s better to think about this as about “online messaging”.
Another (complementary) way to improve email is to make it like facebook where you have to agree to connect with someone before they can message you.
Like many ideas about using $$ as a signal, I think it might be better if we instead used a domain-specific credit system, where credits are allotted to individuals at some fixed rate, or according to some rules, and cannot be purchased. People can find ways of subverting that, but they can also subvert the paid email idea (just open all their emails and take the $$ without reading or responding meaningfully).