Check out my guest post on the Mesmo Consultancy Blog:
In this post I consider the paradox of email’s extreme longevity (over four decades), considering how much we love to hate it. Like the Fax machine, its antiquity doesn’t stop it from remaining alive and well. In my view this has to do with the earth being (with all due respect to Thomas Friedman) a round planet. Those of us who help reduce email overload had better understand the mechanism underlying the allure of email, so this is an important matter.
But go ahead and read it over at Mesmo!