To terse or not to terse

[tacit]

I woke this morning thinking about work emails.

I emailed my lawyer and my therapist this morning.

When I write a work-related email to a client or a vendor or some professional I’m contracting for services, I tend to take a lesson from my experiences when I owned a computer consulting firm back in Tampa. Back then, I strongly, strongly preferred

Comments

[anais_pf]

Team Terse here, with the ask in the first or second sentence. Explanatory paragraphs could follow if the first paragraph is insufficient to explain what's happening or what's wanted.

[andrewducker]

Terse.

If you want to thank me for my work then do it *when I do the work*. Or as a separate email. Not mixed in with requests.