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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The other day, my beloved Mimestream started hanging and being slow. I’m probably not going to abandon it, but it was an excuse for me to set it aside for a while. I just opened a gmail.com tab in my browser and rolled like that for a while. It was nice. Honestly, I probably look…

“Free your newsletters from the inbox”, Meco says. I tend to agree. I keep my content consumption stuff out of my email inbox. I do that through Feedbin as it makes the most sense to me to combine that with RSS. But if you’re not an RSS type, I can see this being useful. Looks…

Rands, in I Hate Fish, says he’s conquered email after struggling with it for a long time: Are you still struggling with your email inbox? I’m not. It’s been years. Which basically boils down to two rules: It’s always elbow grease that gets it done in the end. Your job is to push through the…