Unplugging Is Not The Solution You Want
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Unplugging Is Not The Solution You Want
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Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices.
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
You do not need to completely give up e-mail; there is no need to go “off the grid.” Rather you just need to reduce the number of times you check it, and the amount of time you spend on it.
Michael Linenberger • Master Your Workday Now: Proven Strategi
While email's continued evolution is significant, what it has retained from the old web sets it apart from the other pretty, convenient apps. Email is an open, interoperable protocol. Someone can use Google's service, spin up a server of her own, or send messages through Microsoft's enterprise software. And yet all of these people can communicate s... See more
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
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One of the greatest tragedies of modern technology is entire generations afraid to sit with their own thoughts.
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