Earlier I had posted on my weblog about why I liked emails as a form of communication. I was so wrong.

Emails are useful form only if the communication is: (i) pre-structured, and (ii) necessitates long-form text. In all other scenarios, you’re better off texting.

The point of conversation is not just to share maximum context, but firstly to find the right shared context, and that requires a very fast feedback loop. This fast feedback loop is not possible in any way other than texting (apart from verbal conversation). Now that I have gotten used to texting, emails feel pathetically slow.

For maximum context dumping and fetching, blogs, essays and books are the way to go.