Similarly, I find that people often insist on communicating information by phone, when the same information could be conveyed by email more quickly, without interrupting other activities on the recipient’s end, in a form which leaves a convenient lasting record which can be referred back to as necessary. In fact, I often find people trying to contact me on the phone even when the advantages of email are so pronounced that they’re effectively forced to send a followup email restating what they already said on the phone, in the form they should have put it in originally had they not felt compelled to waste both of our time first.
Similarly, I find that people often insist on communicating information by phone, when the same information could be conveyed by email more quickly, without interrupting other activities on the recipient’s end, in a form which leaves a convenient lasting record which can be referred back to as necessary. In fact, I often find people trying to contact me on the phone even when the advantages of email are so pronounced that they’re effectively forced to send a followup email restating what they already said on the phone, in the form they should have put it in originally had they not felt compelled to waste both of our time first.