Part 2...
*Be a better Sender:*

* Use BCC for large lists of addressees to avoid the dreaded mega-thread, and to protect users’ addresses from being known by others
* Summarize your request or communication in a few sentences at the top instead of making people read through the entire mega-thread
* Three Sentences (https://web.archive.org/web/20120120052313/http://three.sentenc.es/) - from 2012
* Maximum two apologies for taking up someone’s time
* It’s 2020. Stop asking, “Did you get my email?” Start asking, “May I get a response from you within 48 or 72 hours?”
* Email is really an asynchronous tool; so when trying to get a response to NOT use it to get something you need with a quick turn around...because the person on the other end might be tied up with other things. “I need this by tomorrow”....and you send it at 3pm- you shall be burned at the stake in my book
* Re-evaluate your signature and just how much information you are blasting to people. With. Every. Sent. Email.
* Three rounds of email tennis? Time for a voice/video chat with your recipient.
* _Thou shalt not_ use URGENT; if it ain’t. And avoid “immediately;” unless what you're asking has to be done so.

*The $1 Million question(s)*
Does your personal or work email need to be on your mobile phone when it already is on your other tech devices?
What emails were so urgent to respond to that warranted your email app being present on your mobile device?

*The Business Emoji Battle Royal*

* (2019) Adobe emoji study reveals that about 61% of emoji users admit to resorting to them at work
* TL;DR. AJ’s baseball approach to Emoji in email
* When are you casual, when you friendly, and when and what point are you trying to make
* Covid communication and the loss of nonverbal cues (https://www.business.com/articles/put-an-emoji-on-it-should-you-use-emojis-in-business-communication/)
* Know your audience
* Social Psychological and Personality Science (http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550617720269?journalCode=sppa&), emojis make workers appear less competent “The Dark Side of a Smiley: Effects of Smiling Emoticons on Virtual First Impressions”
* However, in come communication it brings a higher rate of percevied friendliness (https://www.hrfuture.net/talent-management/culture/emoji-in-work-related-email-communication-2020-study/) or honesty
* That little icon...may have a mixed meaning; They aren't universal.

*Business chat/messaging*

* Set quiet hours/sign off WHEN YOU ARE OFF. Gett your inner French on; “Right to Disconnect” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_disconnect)
* In this Covid era remember you know you don’t have to have your video on for every call you make. #EndZoomFatigue



* Chris’ security/privacy tinfoil hat: What you’re sending can be sent to others via screenshot. Communicate wisely.
* Don’t want “The Man” to be spying on your communiques? Check out Signal (https://www.signal.org/) and Wire (https://www.signal.org/).

Project: Hygge - Preventing Burnout

*AJ*

* Coffee & quiet after waking up without the sound of an alarm
* Current playlist: https://chillhop.com/releases/sleepy-fish-everything-fades-to-blue/
* Practicing ‘turning off’
* Can’t look forward to something big; so find small projects that make you happy to look forward to.



Quality Assurance

Audio/Video:

*Chris:
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* The Daily Stoic podcast (https://dailystoic.com/Podcast/) by Ryan Holiday - Quick hit of rationalization to start your day.


*AJ: *

* A chef’s secret to organizing your life. https://pca.st/episode/5c745efc-c61b-4cb8-998b-dfadc197f2f2
* “We begin with the importance of squaring your checklists with your calendar and the one organizing process Dan most recommends: something called the *30-minute "meeze."* We then discuss how to arrange your physical working space for greater efficiency and the importance of working clean. From there, Dan explains what he thinks *Stephen Covey's famous idea of putting first things first* doesn't take into consideration, and why it's important to understand the difference between what Dan calls *"process time"* and *"immersive time."*