Sentenc.es; a disciplined way to deal with email. Could you do it?
I got an email from Matt Knisely with this in his footer
"Q: Why is this email 3 sentences or less?
I'm going to try to adopt it as my personal policy. Let's see how it goes.
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Kim, it's now August 20. Could you make a follow-up post on what you've learned in a month of "three-sentence emails"?
Posted by: Joe Ely | Aug 20, 2009 at 04:33 PM
i'm going to give this a shot this week.
Posted by: Tim Schraeder | Aug 02, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Hi Kem,
Off topic - sorry.
Have searched your blog page - can't find your RSS button. How can I get your blog into my google reader?
Posted by: Mark Jaffrey | Jul 30, 2009 at 05:52 AM
Nonsense. Three is too many!
Posted by: Doug | Jul 28, 2009 at 07:51 AM
This is a comma fault epidemic waiting to happen. Also, I predict pervasive over-usage of the word "and" and further abuse of the already misunderstood and historically disrespected semi-colon (";").
And I said all of that in two...oops, three sentences.
Posted by: Barry Pike | Jul 27, 2009 at 03:28 PM