Agree email needs to be replaced, but what a crappy article. Especially love how they don’t understand that things like the fact that CC used to be a standard letter writing concept and so, yes, people knew what it meant. Making me feel old. Yes people used to have to learn how to formally write letters on paper, and they had lots of things that could note additional information like ps, cc, att, and so on.

What a shit article.

There are well known problems with email, but everything that’s been proposed as a replacement is far far worse.

Apparently we should all jump to some proprietary enshittified replacement because the author can’t figure out the right way to use BCC.

I need email at work because otherwise I would have to have a direct conversation with numerous people whom I would rather not speak to.

So, what’s the successor? How do we send and receive electronic letters then?

(Edit: Genuine question…)

This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.

I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?

I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.

The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.