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This fucking garbage again. Just be genuine, you dont need to find some optimal way to flex / power game in emails.
They missed by far the most important one:
I just wanted to confirm from our meeting just now, did you want me to (some crazy shit that could cause problems)?
(and DO NOT do any of the crazy shit until you have the email confirming it)
If I get an email that says “it’s easier to discuss in person” I am DEFINITELY writing that shit down.
Why does this feel so wrong?
Because so much of that would put you off if you were on the receiving end.
As a human person, when a human person is on the other end, I do my best to be kind, empathetic, forgiving, and accommodating.
When some asshole wants to try and swing his dick around in an email, my instinct is “fuck that guy”
So, fun fact, this is lifted directly (except with shittier graphics and formatting and also what I think are the remnants of OCR or autocorrect mistakes that didn’t get fixed, which is kind of hilarious - for instance, the middle square should be “Wording this is hard,” not “Working this is hard”) from Dani Donovan’s Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It, an amazing resource for people with ADHD. (Highly recommend, by the way, even though it was kinda pricy.) It was meant as a guide for anxious, dysregulated people who severely struggle with writing these types of emails and communications. It’s not quite the investment bro bullshit I think a lot of people here seem to think.
I mean, whether it has value in itself is up to the beholder. I just wanted to give credit to the actual creator and provide a little context.
What kind of personality is always aware of this kind of perceptive interaction, and what are their core thought functions?
✓ Okay, boomer.
“How to email in a stiff, cold, professional tone for the first two emails in a chain before the pretense is dropped and we email informally because there are more important things to do.”
