Email is good

2026-08-05

  • Convenience can be a collective trap

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    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...

2026-08-02

  • Where’s my wax seal?

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    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 recei...

2026-07-20

  • Three Vendors; Three Emails

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    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 wan...

2026-07-08

  • Why I email complete strangers

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    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....

2026-06-22

  • This Email Could Have Been a Meeting

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    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...

2026-05-26

  • Accidental Emails

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    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 revea...