People That Just… Don’t Email

You and I can really like email, but we can’t force anyone else to. Most people don’t, I’m sure you realize, even if in reality it’s providing an extremely valuable communication tool, which they should lean into instead of away from! But alas. Extracting value out of email often comes in the form of reaching out to people. Can you help them? Can they help you? Should we communicate more to figure that out? This often begins via email as it’s the main publicly accessible communication medium. There is usually a power dynamic at play. Maybe I really really wanna communicate with you because I really really want a certain thing to work out. They probably know that, if they are smart. And if that’s the case, and they don’t particularly love email, you should be more than willing to move to whatever communication method they like. If the power dynamic goes the other way, maybe forcing them onto email is fine. It’s perhaps the most awkward when the power dynamic is equal. Say it’s a…