And the homework: Back-of-the-envelope tally of individual communications

This is the one where you figure out how best to make a reasonable estimate of your daily individual (as opposed to mass) communications:

*  Number of phone calls and number of minutes
*  Number of emails (and FB messages, etc.) that you've read and that you've written.  (If you also tally the ones you received but didn't read, that's excellent.)
*  Number of text messages.
*  Number of IM chats; some tally (or guess) of how many lines of text, that would be a bonus.
*  Count up whatever else seems to fit:  Skype/G-chat, etc.

The goal here is to use the most effective, efficient means to come up with a reasonable estimate of your daily activity.  Taking your monthly cell minutes and dividing by 30 seems A-OK to me, for instance, but if you've got a better way to go, do it.

By Thursday morning, email me:

-- Your estimates
-- AND a quick explanation of how you came up with each one. 

Example:  "50 text messages on Wednesday; my inbox counts them for me."


Cool?  So by Thursday 9 a.m., get those suckers to dan [dot] weissman [at] gmail [dot] com
Cool.