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Working with other people online

Seven screens. About three minutes.

Two people drawn as squares, facing each other with a line between them. somehow

Two people, one message.

The whole area is deciding how.

Four boxes in a row labelled a chat, an email, a meeting, a shared document. a chatan emaila meetinga shared file

The channel is a choice.

Most people use whatever is already open.

One large box labelled a message with a dashed frame around it labelled everyone who can see it. everyone who can see ita message

More people see it than you meant.

A channel decides who, and it decides quietly.

A row of three boxes labelled sent, stored, searchable, with arrows between them. 1sent2stored3findable

Nothing you send stops existing.

It is kept, and findable later.

A dashed frame labelled you online holding two boxes: what you meant and what they read. you, onlinewhat you meantwhat they read

Tone does not travel.

Short reads as cross. Say the extra sentence.

Do today

Take one message you were about to send in a chat and send it as an email instead, or the other way round.

That's the whole thing