Everyone Has Email. Nobody Uses It Right

(kaplich.me)

18 points | by ExMachina73 1 hour ago

10 comments

  • Baguette5242 2 minutes ago
    Actually pretty good advice in this article. I work in an email-heavy industry and my advice would have been exactly the same. I have to declare email bankruptcy once a year though, so I might not do it properly.
  • cowanon77 26 minutes ago
    I dislike this whole genre of “everybody is doing x wrong”. The argument almost always boils down to “I’m super smart and everyone else is an idiot”. Maybe other people just have different needs and preferences?
    • PopAlongKid 2 minutes ago
      That is not at all the argument made by the article. The headline could be better.
    • jrmg 8 minutes ago
      The headline is annoyingly clickbaitey, but the article actually contains pretty good advice.
  • mmh0000 4 minutes ago
    Thanks Claude, for the overly bland article!

    The prompt author removed all the em-dashes but left all the other llm tells. Oops.

  • MitPitt 44 minutes ago
    > Facebook can shut down tomorrow. Twitter can rebrand itself into oblivion. But email? Email is forever.

    Yet author is using Gmail, curious. Even if Google doesn't shut down, there have been many cases of unexplained account terminations.

    I also wonder if author ever heard of identity management and SSO.

  • jrmg 8 minutes ago
    “All official things come through email — documents, confirmations, receipts, that thing you need to prove you actually paid for something three years ago.”

    …although Amazon recently put an end to that…

  • djoldman 23 minutes ago
    > You can't DM famous people on Instagram and expect a response, but send them a thoughtful email and suddenly you're having a conversation.

    Easy to find email addresses of famous people are unlikely to respond to you to say the least.

  • stavros 3 minutes ago
    Do you remember a time when not all articles were written by LLMs?
  • drcongo 38 minutes ago
    Email is the worst of all worlds.
  • sehw 47 minutes ago
    Don't tell me how to live my life?
  • andsoitis 46 minutes ago
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