Friend of mine runs a food charity. When the lockdown started they had loads of donations from McDonalds. But yes couldn’t agree more about the whinerbabies!
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Actually, I loathe smart phones (yes, I have an iPhone SE, lovely piece of equipment, although it is out of action just now), but I do love the land line.
Since this crisis commenced, I have had several hour long conversations - by phone - relaxed, serious chats, the kind I haven't had since I was a teenager.
However I agree about the pleasure of writing (and receiving) real letters. It helps clarify stuff in your own mind.
Above all, I love the physical act of writing, (with a fountain pen, a Mont Blanc Meisterstuck 144 that I have used for years) taking notes, jotting down ideas, mulling stuff over on the written page (a Leuchstturm1917) note-book, with lovely heavy paper.
Very good post, and I am in complete agreement with you about the poor, (and sometimes appalling) treatment of minorities in some of the countries where I have worked.
Some of my friends - who are in the food business - have been busy supplying front line health workers (and others) with lunches, and food boxes, during this pandemic.
HAH! I have the same notebook! A silver hardback Leuchstturm1917. I found these last year and dropped all my Moleskine notebooks for them. Absolutely love them.
Even though I can type 160wpm+ and I spend all day on a computer, there's just something about a quality paper notebook that gets my brain thinking and dealing with what needs to be done that I've never been able to replicate with any to do program.
I've always wanted a real fountain pen...
Well with all the looting going on you could take a stroll to a public park, find a water fountain, rip it out and replace the water line with an ink line.
I think email is fine as long as it is the same content you would put in a letter. Not many write full emails anymore. If they even use email anymore instead of messaging, they are just short things.
Agreed.
Actually, I tend to write emails as I would write letters, complete with full sentences, salutations, and paragraphs.
In my experience, the recipients tend to like to receive them.
Yeah, I hate those one line emails. It drives my management nuts sometimes but I always feel like more information, concise as possible, is always better. When it comes to personal emails - always like a letter, yep.
Couldn’t agree more. Messages not so much, but emails are written the same way as I’d write a letter. Just the spell check makes it easier to follow!
As folks here have undoubtedly ascertained I tend to be rather wordy.....even in messages and texting! For the most part, my emails sound much like a letter written to the person, unless of course it is some sort of business correspondence, in which case I am more succinct and also more formal.
Yea and those people annoy me that complain about too much info. At least with more you can filter what you need instead of what you need to know being missing.
It depends on the audience. I can assure you that none of my bosses has the capacity to read long-ish documents, let alone long-ish emails, to then filter what they need and what they don't need and digest it into useful information. There are many cases in which brevity is the best thing. It also shows to you who is a good report and who's not; whoever has the ability to understand what you need to read and know is certainly paying attention.
My boss is like that. With lengthy emails he would read only so much, then call me to ask what I was trying to say. It irritated him. I look at that as my problem, not his.
It happens rarely now, as I structure my longer emails with him (and his boss) in mind: a concise summary, followed by the main content, also written concisely.
Reading the bulk of the content isn't necessary to get the idea, but it's helpful to have, even necessary, in many cases.
I also use bullets, numbers, and formatting to make the content easier to follow, to refer back to, and to digest. And maps. In my line of work (land-related issues), a good map is often an essential ingredient to an effective email.
An obvious approach, I suppose; but it took me awhile to fully appreciate how effective it can be.
Usually this is the best course, he gave you feedback and you adapted; now that my position has been "upped" due to a triple jump sudden promotion I also see why the upper you go, the shorter the communications...
also, I always keep in mind this memo by none other than Winston Churchill, that is a man that wasn't certainly afraid to read long, tedious texts:
Also have noticed the higher up you go the shorter the emails need to be.
I agree with everything in that memo, except the use of inefficient and ostentatious Roman numerals.Usually this is the best course, he gave you feedback and you adapted; now that my position has been "upped" due to a triple jump sudden promotion I also see why the upper you go, the shorter the communications...
also, I always keep in mind this memo by none other than Winston Churchill, that is a man that wasn't certainly afraid to read long, tedious texts:
And now, a few words from the climate with my commentary: Hot and humid (Eeeeewwwww 🥵)
Hope everyone is okay.
Hope everyone is okay.
Coldest day we’ve had in weeks here. Had to put the heating back on!
Ah so it's your fault we now call it MacOS 10.n instead of OS X. I knew it!
Likewise, yesterday evening.
And a pullover, today, for the first time in what seems like weeks.
Tomorrow is going to be the first day I don't have to work since the beginning of March. I plan to savor every second of it.
On my mind today, among many things, is feeling honored.
I had the privilege and honor to have received a private invitation to a live stream at a US Embassy to witness the promotion of my former platoon commander, and friend, from the Marine Corps.
He was promoted to full Colonel today and I was honored to be among the people who received the invitation to watch from afar. He was the best officer I ever served under and he deserves and earned this promotion.
He'll be leaving his current assignment and returning to the United States where he will take over as base commander of a Marine Corps base.
Last month his wife secretly reached out to me and a whole lot of his other friends and comrades and asked us to record a short video of congratulations for the promotion. This was because of the COVID where a normal and traditional ceremony couldn't be held. He received well over 200 videos from everyone across the globe which stands as a testament to his character and leadership. Then he took the time to record a short and personalized video for each of the 200+ of us and he sent that out a couple of weeks ago. Today was when they could do an official ceremony, yet, still abbreviated due to the COVID. There were only a handful of people present, it was outdoors, and social distancing was in effect, as well as facial masks being worn.
But it was still cool to see him again, even if on a live stream.
I had the privilege and honor to have received a private invitation to a live stream at a US Embassy to witness the promotion of my former platoon commander, and friend, from the Marine Corps.
He was promoted to full Colonel today and I was honored to be among the people who received the invitation to watch from afar. He was the best officer I ever served under and he deserves and earned this promotion.
He'll be leaving his current assignment and returning to the United States where he will take over as base commander of a Marine Corps base.
Last month his wife secretly reached out to me and a whole lot of his other friends and comrades and asked us to record a short video of congratulations for the promotion. This was because of the COVID where a normal and traditional ceremony couldn't be held. He received well over 200 videos from everyone across the globe which stands as a testament to his character and leadership. Then he took the time to record a short and personalized video for each of the 200+ of us and he sent that out a couple of weeks ago. Today was when they could do an official ceremony, yet, still abbreviated due to the COVID. There were only a handful of people present, it was outdoors, and social distancing was in effect, as well as facial masks being worn.
But it was still cool to see him again, even if on a live stream.