About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
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About a happy man –Donald Knuth’s approach to email
also suggested writing more structured emails to minimize unnecessary back-and-forth messaging, an objective I elaborate in much greater detail in a follow-up book I published a half decade later titled A World Without Email.
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