More on the email crazy

[banzai]

Merlin Mann hits a few nails squarely on their heads in his recent post "Email Insanity and the 0.001 Challenge":

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[unblinkable]

I loved this!!!!!!

You should read my last post. :D

[dukesewell]

Outstanding!

[sillypilgrim]

The funny thing is that these email problems are not new to email. I know MANY young girls who spend their teen years through... I don't know, thirty five? learning about these bounderies for talking.

Problems for women in the talking area (and it could be men, too, I just haven't met any):
*Knowing when to pause and let the other person think of a response (as in realizing you're having a conversation and not a monologue).
*Knowing what of the 8 million things running through your head are at all interesting to people around you and NOT saying the majority which are not interesting, helpful or relavent.
*Reading body language that says "I can't talk right now" and shutting up finally.
*Realizing that when you say bad things about someone even though it strokes your vanity somehow, it does real damage to said persons image.

I can point these things out because I have done them!!! In fact, still sometimes do them.

[journeyto]

WOW.