MailOver AI

million dollar questions

V.1 of my maxims

mantras on my wall. if you like any of them download/print them from here on my website:

the perfect product has arrived! high print quality and finish! zero defects. especial thanks goes to @danielbelfort now I can finally read @paulg essays printed!

make your work a game. regard your life work as the most fascinating game you know.

Meet MailOver: The Al Email Secretary That Reads & Organizes Your Inbox What if your inbox were already read before you opened it? MailOver turns hundreds of messages into a few clear priorities, then organizes everything else in neat buckets. It finds action items, deadlines, important decisions, and the messages that genuinely need your attention. MailOver reads everything. You read what matters. Try it for free, link in comments:

I’m 33, living in Munich. Tool maker. Building attention-defense technology. Love to connect with like-minded folks.

That is exactly why I created @mailoverai

cold email is already dead for me with @mailoverai it’s categorized as “marketing” which I delete by batches with one click

it is harder because it’s a probabilistic game, rather than a deterministic one

1-The Writer’s Cabin Above the Clouds

or don’t reading emails, only actions or cut your inbox time with an ai secretary or 5% of emails need you, 7% you want to know, 88% is noise. auto-organize your inbox to only spend on emails that worth your time

turn your inbox into a to-do list and organize it with categories

Best product ideas are found through noticing. Notice what frustrates you. Find the few who need it fixed now. Build the smallest proof. Keep talking to them and iterating till they love it. Here is a thread on 2 of @paulg essays about ideas worth building:

Useful is a distribution strategy. 15 posts into my 100-post distribution sprint using @distronautapp, the clearest lesson so far: Useful beats clever. My Booksense redesign post generated 885 impressions and 50 engagements. My guide to turning a LinkedIn profile into a personal website generated 611 impressions and 20 engagements in its first week. Both gave people something concrete they could inspect, use or copy. My more abstract ideas sometimes resonated but usually reached fewer people. The pattern seems obvious in hindsight: Don’t just share what you think. Show what you changed. Explain how you built it. Give people the process. Include something they can use. For my next ten posts, I’m going to spend less time trying to sound interesting and more time making each post useful. Useful is a distribution strategy.

if elon can get rockets to space , i’m pretty sure whatever problem you’re facing can be solved with enough attacks

relentlessly resourceful: surprisingly often, if you keep looking for new attack vectors on a problem in front of you, you can figure it out. this is one of the most important skills in life and it’s learnable and it works in almost all scenarios. - sam altman on paul graham’s advice

Outcome optimization asks: “How do I get 10,000 views today?” Process optimization asks: “Did I show up? Did I test one thing? Did tomorrow’s system improve?”

My blind spots from 10 years ago: 1- I was quick to categorize obstacles into “impossible” bucket after a few failed attempts to solve/overcome them instead of keep attacking them from different angles with more force till I find a way out. 2- I didn’t know how to think about finding a job. Now I think in terms of supply-demand when I try to sell something or find a good job. 3- Back then I thought if you got a bad outcome it means you made a bad decision and didn’t consider randomness and luck as a factor in non-deterministic environments like life! Now I understand the difference between deterministic and probabilistic games and why a good decision can increase the odds of a good outcome, but not guarantee one. Some likely blind spots that I have right now (things that I'm not spending enough time thinking about or perhaps willfully ignoring): 1- Things I consider hobby/cool and do in my free time (or just for fun) that I should take more seriously and double down on, because it is very likely they will be the things that everyone else will do 5-10 years from now. 2- Doing more of the things that don't seem scalable like hiring the first 1000 users of my products manually by warm/cold outreach and talking to each and everyone of them and consistently posting content to find my people online. 3- Spending a portion of my savings (let's say 10k) to acquire skills that only can be acquired by spending large amounts of money and making many mistakes: example could be running 100 different paid ads to learn how to advertise effectively by trial & error.