# Dweebling — concept Dweebling is when you get an email you take seriously and need to respond to in detail, so you’re going to wait to respond until you have the time and mental space to do it properly. Life being what it is, it takes a long time before the conditions are right and by then it’s kind of embarrassingly far in the future, which makes it even more important to reply properly, which means you need to be in an even better state … This cycle repeats until it is far enough in the future that you don’t reply out of mortification over how long it’s been. The only way to escape from Dweebling is some combination of 1. Email debt forgiveness day which is on April 30 (although the official website seems to always say whatever today’s date is [Celebrate Email Debt Forgiveness Day! | Email Debt Forgiveness Day](https://emaildebtforgiveness.me/) ) 2. Send a subpar but heartfelt email. As far as I can tell, nobody is ever like “wtf I am rejecting this well-written email because it took so long.” Just be heartfelt and optionally apologize for dwelling and link to this definition.  https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1264188828652363776?s=20&t=GzjvQsXkv4NFZiBL711f6w