{"id":5043,"date":"2024-11-17T23:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:31:26","slug":"email-is-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/11\/email-is-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Email is supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/11\/nervi-and-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reading<\/a> this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/34688461-beauty-s-rigor\">book about Pier Luigi Nervi<\/a>. After finishing it, I emailed the author to let him know that his book was amazing, thanking him very much for writing it.<\/p>\n<p>He, \u2014an architecture professor with a long career\u2014 replied within a few hours to say thank you very much as well. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pure. It&#8217;s simple. It works. There&#8217;s no need for vultures in the middle of communication, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>I also just realized: I&#8217;ve had the best conversations with family, friends or internet friends via email. By and large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u2014an architecture professor with a long career\u2014 replied within a few hours to say thank you very much as well. That&#8217;s it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}