David Nyeste

How NOT To Write Emails Work without email is hardly imaginable these days. Emails have become so ubiquitous that sometimes you have to take a step back and ask yourself: is this still communication or is this art? I am pretty sure, what I received today was the latter. To give you the necessary context, here's how it went: Sender wrote an email to multiple TO-recipients, of which I had the privilege to be one. Subject: FWD:FWD:FWD: "<<lots of acronyms none of which I was familiar with>> contract" Content: "Hello, this with supplements of <<more cryptic acronyms>> <<27 lines of signature>>" Attachment: <<acronyms>>.xlsx Somewhere not too deep in my mind I have three simple drawers for emails:  1. do now,  2. delegate,  3. art.  Upon first scan the lights of the art-drawer immediately started to blink. But then I hesitated. I doubted. I questioned. I contemplated:"Nah! That's too easy. Let's do this old...

With ongoing vaccination the end of the pandemic and the return to the office seems a realistic scenario. Having experienced the limitations of remote work people are already preparing themselves for post COVID_19 work at the office. Yes, you heard right: working together with colleagues in a common space at - the same time. This will however be anything than a 'back to normal', so here are my personal tips for post COVID working: 1. Try not to pour coffee in anybody's face in case anybody should tell you about his or her exotic vacation in some sunny piece of paradise. I have not been away from home for over a year and my only business travel worth mentioning has been between home office and the actual office. But I will do my very best to restrain myself. 2. Don't mention to anyone how you passed all those endless hours at home. In my case, I will eschew any confession about how many hundreds of hours I have spent in my newly created hobby room in the basement, let...