I think…

I am currently obsessed with communication efficiency.

For example, I could say “the efficiency of communication” or “communication efficiency”. They both mean the same thing but one has twice as many words. The best emails are the ones where it is not possible to remove a single word.

The emails I write tend to have a lot of “filler”. Phrases like “I think”, “maybe”, “sort of”, “kind of”, etc, are all extraneous. Before I hit send, I do a pass through my email to remove these phrases to increase clarity.

Maybe there should be a character limit for emails after all.