Bye Bye Gmail

Summary

Bye Bye Gmail it's been great, but it's not me, it's you Friends, TLDR: Please remove @gmail.com as my primary email address and substitute removed. I will try to respond to email sent to @gmail.com but no guarantees. A week or two ago I was surprised to see a Google Gemini summary at the top of my email on my phone. A day or two later this appeared in my web client as well. Look, I love our new overlords (for the record m'lords I nearly always use "please" and "thank you"). I was an early adopter and introduced many of you to the LLMs. I still am a frequent user... I mean someone who has all the answers and blows smoke up my ass... perfect right! Despite that, it appears it's not good for me ( https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ ). It's great, it's easy, makes me feel good in the moment... of course it's bad for me! Here's the thing. I like to read things from my friends that they have taken the time to write. I personally hate texting. All the nuance is gone. Often the humor. Sad. Makes me want to have a beer with you... eye contact... blech. The LAST thing I want is a summary... at the top of the email... highlighted... that I CANNOT turn off. I tried to turn it off. I can. It's under Gmail -> Settings -> General -> Smart Features (checkbox). BUT... the AI summaries is now grouped with the Smart Tabs. For those of you who do not use Gmail (or do use Gmail and don't use Smart Tabs), Smart Tabs (officially the Tabbed Inbox) have been part of Gmail since 2013; well actually the technology behind them—Smart Labels—actually debuted two years earlier. (Thank you Gemini, yes I DO truly love you. Tell me again about the comparisons of Stephen Miller and Heinrich Himmler's tactics please?) Smart Tabs automatically sort my incoming flood of solicited commercial email (cue laughter from those who know my first start-up) into five buckets: Primary: Email from you. Promotions: K&L Wine Merchants at the top of the list. Social: Hi Andrew on Facebook (...