How Not to Communicate by Email

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The average person, the MIT Communication Lab tells us, “receives ~120 emails/day and spends about 11hrs/week sorting through emails.” Matt Plummer, in a 2019 article titled, How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day, adds, “The average professional spends 28% of the work day reading and answering email… that amounts to a staggering 2.6 hours spent and 120 messages received per day.” That’s a lot of content to work through every day, and a lot of time spent doing it. It behooves senders to make sure their emails are formatted and written to make the best use of … click below for more ↓

The Body Snatchers

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I think it’s about time for another remake of the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this time instead of aliens taking over human bodies, we should have a far-right leader who creates a cult of personality that turns normal people into mindless, worshipping zombies he and his henchmen control. Oh, right: that’s not fiction. It’s actually happened: MAGA is the prominent contemporary example, but we can also turn to other rightwing parties emerging in democracies across the world, which themselves in thrall to the cults of personality created in Russia and China under Putin and Xi.* Wouldn’t that … click below for more ↓

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