I tend to be loquacious. Well at least that's what one person has told me (and they were being nice), over the course of time I've had the opportunity to write lengthy emails that frankly were appreciated, but probably read once and deleted or save to an archive. Recently I read Scott Hanselman's blog post on productivity tips, and one of them was his approach to emails as being no longer than four to five sentences. Scott's a programmer as well as a whole lot of other things, but he realizes his limits. And one of those limits, like heartbeats, is that he's only got so many keystrokes in him. While a ton of emails have specific, time dated, and sensitive material, like the rest of us, he sometimes is communicating something greater than an item that will be read by one person and die. Or he's finding himself writing the SAME email to a bunch of people that could be optimized, and referred to in a single sentence email.
So, basically, this is my effort to avoid sending my friends, work associates, and relatives, long winded emails. Instead, if it's a topic I think should be addressed in a larger way, or should perhaps be something a bunch of people might want to read, it's going here. And like maybe most bloggers, if it's not a topic you're truly interested in, you have the ability to avoid it by closing the tab, or moving along to the next item.
We'll see.
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