Shortmail is the new email

My fingers are very itchy at the moment. This might be a sign that I’m hopefully getting over this cold. They want to write all day – non-stop. I’m sick of this cold (pun intended)!

Yet I still prefer to keep my communication short and concise. I hate verbosity with a passion. However I have more passion for brevity.

I like it when communication is efficient, meaningful and short.

Which is why I only answer the phone if I know I have time to do so. If answering the phone is not part of my schedule, it will either be on silent or ignored with glee.

It [probably] takes me less then 60 seconds to write a message containing ≤500 characters and still be able to say more than I need. To deliver that message over the Internet will probably take less than five seconds. And the receiver can reply to that whenever s/he feels like it or has time.

The way I conduct my work communicating via a phone is a distraction.

Don’t treat email like you have to write a 800-word essay to communicate something. If email is a waste of time, is because you or the recipient– or both of you –are unable to communicate clearly via writing.

Email is as efficient as the user. It’s not the technology’s fault if the user is inefficient.

This is why I will slowly switch exclusively over to Shortmail. Because if someone sends me a message with more than 500 characters, they can actually edit it. Yes, it’s true. Next time you get an email from the account of a Shortmail user saying your message is too long, make the effort to read the whole message and you will find a nice button that says ‘Edit‘. Click it and you can omit what is not needed to be part of the message.

Try it, maybe you will learn to be less verbose.