Inspired by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, I’m trying to Make Person-to-Person Email a Thing again. If your message does not require immediate attention, don’t send a text message, WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger, or other direct-message. Just send an email. That way, the recipient reads and responds to it it at their leisure.

Things you should send in email:

  • “Happy birthday!”
  • “Here is a funny meme.”
  • “Let’s get together in a couple of weeks.”

Things that are OK to send in text message:

  • “I’m running 15 minutes late - sorry!”
  • “You’re on fire. Literally. You might want to look into that.”
  • “There is pie.”

Cory wrote about this on his blog recently, but I can’t find the link.