I was reading this book about Pier Luigi Nervi. After finishing it, I emailed the author to let him know that his book was amazing, thanking him very much for writing it.
He, —an architecture professor with a long career— replied within a few hours to say thank you very much as well. That’s it.
The beauty of email. Our quick conversation was private, genuine, asynchronous, without any company extracting any data (or the least possible, hopefully). The conversation could become public with a screenshot or printed out, but there’s nothing here: hey, thank you for your work! Hey thank you for your thank you! Humans sharing positivity in the most concise digital way possible.
It’s pure. It’s simple. It works. There’s no need for vultures in the middle of communication, y’all.
I also just realized: I’ve had the best conversations with family, friends or internet friends via email. By and large.