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The inherent dichotomy of e-mail length
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The inherent dichotomy of e-mail length

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Ted Bauer
Apr 22, 2015
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Want to count the ways that e-mail is awful? Sure, let's do that.

  • It's probably the biggest time-suck of the modern age.

  • Even though it's really easy to solve many work issues with a 5-minute convo, it always becomes a 61-person e-mail thread.

  • No one understands the "push/pull" methodology.

  • No one contextualizes any e-mail, so everyone thinks that everythin…

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