Reader Tyler Mercer writes in with a link to a nice essay from Terry Godier about the underlying systems of the internet. The reason your mee-maw and your bank and your boss can all reach you at the same email address is that the protocol that made it possible was published more than forty years…

Article from Dan Mercer that’s an obvious must-link from this blog. His opener sets the stage: In her book Attention Span, UC Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark describes a study in which her team shut off email for a group of office workers for a week, then compared their behavior to the previous three weeks. The…

I tried to unsubscribe from the World of Hyatt emails I was getting. They have an obnoxious email setting screen with lots of negatives to figure out. Like you decline to agree to opt-out to not receive email communications. But also they say: 3. Write to (include World of Hyatt membership number):    World of…

This is a boring story that will impress no one. I needed to look around at options for a third-party company to help with something business-related. I had contact information for three vendors I wanted to talk to. Email addresses, naturally. I communicated with all three of them via email and learned what I needed…

Nice essay from Zachary Kai with many quotable bits! Social media platforms rise and fall like ancient empires sped up a thousand times. Yet email endures. Like the postal service or the printed book. Is it any coincidence these technologies remain my great loves? They share a quality I struggle to name. Perhaps it’s permanence…

Justin Jackson on how connecting with people face-to-face can be so much more powerful than anything text-based: I’m convinced that many of society’s problems come from how we communicate online. Social media is a big part of this, but so are the text-based chat tools we use with friends, family, and coworkers. We have a…

I started watching Hacks the other day. Kinda fun show. There was a scene where Ava and her agent are talking and Ava had gotten an email that included a bunch of other emails in a thread and it revealed some detail to Ava she wasn’t supposed to know. Barely important to the plot at…

You and I can really like email, but we can’t force anyone else to. Most people don’t, I’m sure you realize, even if in reality it’s providing an extremely valuable communication tool, which they should lean into instead of away from! But alas. Extracting value out of email often comes in the form of reaching…

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