Martin Weigert talks pretty openly about his love for emails.
Over the years, one frequent type of blog post published by tech heavyweights laments their struggle with managing their emails, often ending in death wishes for this technology.
I however want email to live, to thrive, and to be eternal. Not only because I publish weekly email newsletters (ok, that makes me biased), but also because email offers a huge benefit to every person on this planet with a comparatively little downside for them individually and for society at large.
A couple of points we just can’t overlook while talking about emails.
- They have wasted (and continue to do so) countless productive hours cumulatively of the human race.
- It remains the only open form that is not walled by any one company’s interests; a form that allows communication that is cross-platform, irrespective of who the sender and receivers are and what service or tool they use.
Do I love email? Nope. However, do I hate email, wish death for the form of communication? Absolutely, positively not.