Life would be better with more TLDR

TLDR is the internet acronym for “too long, didn’t read.”

I think every email should contain the essential piece of info in the first sentence. The reader should have everything they need in 10 seconds. Get to the point.

Then use the following few lines to smooth out that message and add kindness, context, and more info.

You’re busy, I’m busy, and we both stink at communicating in a friendly, yet succinct manner.

Spit out your message and smooth it out afterward. Approaching your emails, blog posts, instant messages, videos, social media content, etc… with a TLDR-first mindset will help make everything you do more user-friendly.

I’m still working on it, myself. Too often, these benign blog posts are often verbose beyond belief.