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The proverb “good fences make good neighbors”, often attributed to poet Robert Frost, is the perfect metaphor for the beauty of email as the primary, if not sole, asynchronous communication method in the digital age. The origin of the phrase is not entirely clear. Interesting Literature states an earlier reference in 1640 from E. Rogers, who wrote
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Some have been hoping, perhaps praying, for the death of email. Every “solution” has been tried, but none have prevailed. Some claim email has even “brought them to tears” and that receiving email “is like getting stabbed”. But despite the many doomed “save the world from email” companies that keep cropping up, there may be a
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Just when you thought it was safe to go into group messaging again, just when remote work seemingly guaranteed Slack a permanent fixture on the internet, just when Salesforce threw their weight and $27.7 billion dollars at Slack, now seems like the perfect time to reflect upon Slack and if it really is the savior
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Summer is long over, so it’s time to publish some links about email for Autumn. I thought about calling it Fall 2021 Email Links, but “fall” sounds too close to “fail”, and email is never a failure. Plus, as anyone whose watched 500 Days of Summer knows, Autumn comes after Summer. If you liked my article on
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I’m not a huge fan of links articles, but I may occasionally make an exception. Here’s a few juicy morsels about email from this past summer. Yes, it’s still summertime, technically, if you live in North America, but I’ve got a little collection building up and I want to share. Email is still Money Titan
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Sigh. Here we go again. The New York Times used a slow news day to vent about email and hint that Generation Z will one day free us from email. A fan of ‘Just Use Email’ told me about this article knowing it would ‘trigger’ me (to use a Gen Z word). It worked (ha). Thusly
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Writer Josh Spector published yesterday a collection of 40 one-sentence email tips. It’s worth your time to peruse if you’re a fan of just using email. Normally, when I see articles giving ‘tips’ on how to use email better, I roll my eyes and start reading only to discover the same ol’ trite. The problem with most of
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In the past few years, there has been a resurgence of interest in email newsletters. Some are touting email newsletters as the great savior of email. One theory is that it was related to the pandemic lockdowns and people simply wanting more information to absorb. With standard newsstands shutdown in big cities, email newsletters seemed
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Can’t Apple’s email do almost all of Basecamp’s new Hey email’s top 20 features? The reason Hey’s email service caught my attention is that Basecamp specifically calls out Apple (among the other big email providers). I was a bit surprised when I read Hey’s Top 20 features. The Hey Email service was started by long-time internet developers Jason Fried, a co-founder
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I noticed a most unusual post published yesterday by a Swiss man named Kasper Etter on a blog he calls Explained from First Principles. The post is simply called Email, but when combined with the title of his blog, you can see what he’s doing there. It’s a very long post with lovely text and illustrations and even a handy
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