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Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply?
Read MoreUndoubtedly, Apple co-founder and visionary Steve Jobs wrote several thousands of emails throughout his life. Relatively few of them have been shared with the public, and most of those are short responses to customer complaints.
I’ve been using text-only email for a long time. It just works. I also recommend it to my colleagues as a safe way to ensure messages don’t end up with winmail.dat issues, wierd font rendering, and embedded images during delivery to clients. Read More
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Pet peeve #461:
You probably know of at least one person who uses emails for real-time requests. They annoyingly ask if you’ve read their emails, sometimes instantly after sending them. This expectation puts unnecessary pressure on you to interrupt your productivity by incessantly checking your inbox.
Bottom line, email is not for real-time requests.