Thursday Things — Oct 16th, 2025

In case you’re new here, CCing my EA is a bite-sized newsletter dedicated to Executive Assistants like yourself.

Every Thursday, we deliver a quick email with 5 new job listings, 3 fun posts, and 1 helpful tech tip straight to your inbox. 📬

5 new job listings

1. Block, $69k - $138k, Remote

2. Core Health & Fitness, $75k - $94k, Remote

3. Outreach, $70k - $110k, Remote

4. Music Will, $63k - $67k, Remote

5. Figma, $122k - $215k, San Francisco or New York

We only post jobs under 7 days old, but some may expire before you open this email.

3 posts you might’ve missed

#1

If they can’t handle “I’m the EA,” they’re not ready for the exec. 😤

#2

If you’ve ever fallen victim to an email thread that you didn’t need notifications for every single Reply All, you’ll love this week’s Tech Tip! 👇

#3

You read that right, these are event Buffers that move with the meeting. Goodbye, manual dragging! 👋

Bonus

We received 4530 responses to the optional short answers section of the survey. 🤯 Because I’m unable to fit all of the great responses in the final survey report, I figured I could instead include one in every newsletter moving forward. Here’s the first:

What’s one thing you wish more EAs talked about openly?

1 Tech Tip

Silence the reply-all thread (without actually leaving it)

If you’re ever prevented from hitting inbox zero because you keep getting cc’d on a non-urgent email thread causing that little (1) to repeatedly pop up in your email tab, this is for you.

Gmail: Mute

• Method A (from Inbox list)

  1. Check the box next to the noisy thread

  2. Top toolbar → More (vertical ⋮) → Mute

• Method B (from an open thread)

  1. Open the conversation

  2. Top toolbar above the message (Archive/Spam/Trash row) → More (vertical ⋮) → Mute

     1. (Note: not the small ⋮ inside an individual message, use the top toolbar one.)

• Keyboard shortcut (fastest)

  1. Press m

     1. (If it doesn’t work, go to Settings → See all settings → General → Keyboard shortcuts → On → Save)

What it does: Future replies skip your inbox (they stay in All Mail / any labels) until you unmute.

To Unmute / find muted emails: Use the search bar and type is:muted, open the thread → Move to inbox

Outlook: Ignore

• New Outlook / Outlook on the web (OWA)

  • Open thread → … More actions → Ignore → confirm

• Classic Outlook for Windows

  • Select thread → Home tab → Delete group → Ignore

What it does: Moves the entire conversation (current and future replies) to Deleted Items automatically.

To Unignore, just Open the email from Deleted Items → Stop ignoring

Important note: While Gmail’s Mute quietly archives, Outlook’s Ignore sends emails to Deleted Items. If you’d prefer a softer approach in Outlook, create a rule to move that conversation to an “Inbox-Later” folder instead of deleting it.

For a refresher on past Tech Tips without digging through your emails, they’re all available in a single post right here.

Thank you for reading!

As promised, yesterday we launched a feature that I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist in any other calendar product: Smart Buffers!

If you’d like to try it out, just lemme know and I’ll help get you set up on a free trial :)

On a separate note, I’ve officially completed the data analysis on the big survey we did for the 1 year anniversary! 🎉

I’m working with our designer now to figure out the best way to convey all that data, after which it will finally be available to you. There are quite a few interesting findings so I’m really really looking forward to publishing the results asap.

I’ll catch you next Thursday~

- Johnny Wu

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