Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
February 22, 2019
Episode 98: Traffic
Jessica and Michael use email to prepare for The Observatory, so on this episode, Jessica and Michael decide to discuss about the design — or the lack of design — behind email, and the things people love and hate about it.
Jessica says,
There are people that you text and you have a texting relationship. There are people that you Whatsapp and you have a Whatsapp relationship. There are people that you Slack and you have a Slack relationship. Email seems to be the kind of amorphous ambiguous giant sloppy blanket that seems to insinuate itself between all of those mediums.
Also mentioned this week:
- Adam Grant, New York Times opinion piece on email etiquette
- New York Times Magazine profile on Adam Grant
- KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times, Why I Didn’t Answer Your Email
- Melissa Dahl, The Cut, I Think I’ve Identified Email’s Fundamental Flaw
- The Guardian, a brief history of email
- AppleLink on Wikipedia
- Brian Millar, Fast Company, The freshest writer on design was born 200 years ago
- John Ruskin, Traffic
- Jessica, On Patience (2016)
- Steven Soderbergh 2001 Oscars speech and
- David Sims, The Atlantic, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Crackpot Theories’ on How Moviegoing Has Changed
- Steven Soderbergh, Side Effects
- Diana Vreeland Memo Generator
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