A “compassionate email culture?” ROFL.

Ted Bauer
2 min readApr 1, 2021

Saw this drivel on Harvard Business Review today about “compassionate email cultures” — I thought we killed email? Isn’t that why Salesforce bought Slack? — and I almost took a giant dump on my laptop, which paradoxically might have increased the value of what I normally do with my laptop.

First off, the author gets on the cross about Inbox Zero within 2–3 lines, which makes me gag. I’ve had Inbox…

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Ted Bauer

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