I'm Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the get it done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

As long as it's the start of a new year, do something radical.

A few nights ago, I decided to try a new email service.

Now I used a popular service that rose to prominence because it offered a lot of free storage,

and in return, I've given a permission to read and scan every single email that I send and receive,

analyze those emails, build a profile of me, and sell that profile to marketers.

Now, they do have a privacy policy, which I read very carefully.

It's a gorgeous policy.

It's a beautiful policy. In fact, it sounds like the

best example of don't be evil that you've ever read, except for the teeny tiny little, almost

insignificant three sentences that essentially say, we don't have to honor anything in this

policy if it would be inconvenient, and we reserve the right to share everything about you

with anyone we want, without notifying you at our complete discretion, if anyone in our company

ever decides so. Well, as one of the only three people in the world who have actually read the

privacy policy carefully, you can imagine that I am less than thrilled. So, I decided to try out

fastmail.com. My friends had raved about its speed

and convenience, and I decided to give it a try. After all, it is conveniently, located in a country

that respects privacy and isn't subject to laws that require it to hand over my entire life's

communication to shadowy government agencies with no warrant and no notice to me. So, I'll spare you the raves

about their service. Let's just say that for $40 a year, I actually get technical support,

great performance, documentation that wasn't a hodgepodge of mediocre web pages, and support

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