» the art of brief emails :mnmlist
Skip all the extra stuff and stick to the point.
Month: July 2012
Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
(by enyay)
Superhero Math
Sentenc.es
A more disciplined way to deal with email:
The Problem
E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.
The Solution
Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.
three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.
It sounds so easy.
I think this just means that people who shop in bookstores to learn about computers have yet to learn how to ask Google good questions.
Illustration: Oscar Ramos Orozco (via The 5 Types of Work That Fill Your Day)
Reduce Your Level of Insecurity Work
“Insecurity Work” is the
stuff that we do that (1) has no intended outcome, (2) does not move the ball forward in any way, and (3) is quick enough that you can do it multiple times a day without realizing – but, nonetheless, puts us at ease.
Do real work instead.
A lot of people enjoyed Tim Kreider’s, The ‘Busy’ Trap, but I really enjoyed this illustration by Brecht Vandenbroucke’s that perfectly captured the feeling of being busy.