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    The meeting that should have been an email (and vice versa)

    Friday Features February 6, 2026

    If aliens ever study corporate life, they’ll be baffled by one thing above all: our complete inability to choose the right communication format. We schedule hour-long meetings to share information that could fit in three bullet points. Then we fire…

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