Email has a mind of its own - Deepstash

Email has a mind of its own

The rate of spread of email since the 90s has been outstanding, almost to such a point that the hyperactive hive mind workflow has chosen us.

3 main drivers for this

  • “The hidden costs of asynchrony”: synchrony might be “expensive” to set up, but constant asynchrony is much more expensive in the long term, as issues that may be solved in a couple of minutes tend to stretch in long threads of mindless back and forth.
  • “The cycle of responsiveness”: Email fuels an endless feedback loop, that no one actually actively decided to implement rationally.
  • "The caveman at the computer screen"

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