No matter how many ways we create to communicate, humans will always find a way to drive each other crazy with it. At work I have to culturally know who will answer an actual telephone and who would rather die, who keeps their calendar online up to date and who is a conscientious objector to sharing calendars, who will answer a teams call whenever, and who believes all calls must be scheduled 3 weeks in advance. Who answers quickest on text and who never looks at their personal phone.
Also, I have to intuit who reads all their emails every couple of hours and who checks them every couple of days, who wants a paper copy to review and who'd rather die than look at anything but a screen, who brings a pen to meetings and who uses a tablet, who shows up without their laptop unless you remind them ten times and who will carry their laptop to their grave in a vise-like grip. I have to figure out who needs a text so they will read the email I sent.
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