The email from Phil Schiller to Steve Jobs and Eddy Cue is interesting in itself I suppose, but boy this makes me yearn for a return to the age of email.
I've read several "business magazine" type articles about how you need to be able to communicate quickly and that no one is going to read a long email that you write. I've had a manager say something along the lines of "I'm not going to read that novel" as well, upon receiving multi-paragraph emails.
Well, if Apple's top execs had time to email, maybe we all really do too. Maybe I'm extra touchy about this as someone on a Slack-only team who has experienced multiple miscommunications due to teammates' terse, poorly-written Slack replies. But I sure miss the days when it was normal to take the time to write and edit a coherent thought about something rather than sending messages sentence-by-sentence, as they come to mind.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 27.6 ms ] threadI've read several "business magazine" type articles about how you need to be able to communicate quickly and that no one is going to read a long email that you write. I've had a manager say something along the lines of "I'm not going to read that novel" as well, upon receiving multi-paragraph emails.
Well, if Apple's top execs had time to email, maybe we all really do too. Maybe I'm extra touchy about this as someone on a Slack-only team who has experienced multiple miscommunications due to teammates' terse, poorly-written Slack replies. But I sure miss the days when it was normal to take the time to write and edit a coherent thought about something rather than sending messages sentence-by-sentence, as they come to mind.