Writing about email as a tool for communication, organisation, and focus — not just productivity. These posts explore how email fits into everyday work and digital life.
Email shouldn’t feel like a relief, but it does. When companies hide behind chatbots and help centres, even simple support becomes a negotiation. Email stays the calmest way to explain a real problem, on your own time.
From Nigerian prince emails to modern phishing, 419 scams evolved with the internet — exposing how email’s openness can be exploited.
Email used to be the product. Now it’s bundled into productivity suites and buried under notifications. But for many of us, it remains a deliberate craft — slower, clearer and more intentional than the tools that replaced it.
Most people think nothing of paying for everyday comforts, yet hesitate to spend even a few pounds protecting the email account that underpins their online identity.
I still care deeply about email privacy — but I recently moved my primary inbox from Proton Mail to Fastmail. Here’s why the trade-offs finally tipped.
A deep dive into ForwardEmail.net — how domain-level routing, security, and automation work before messages reach an inbox.
Apple excels at shaping user experiences — but email remains the one part of its ecosystem that feels merely functional, not thoughtfully reimagined.
Yahoo Mail didn’t disappear overnight. It faded from relevance as trust eroded, decisions stalled, and breaches exposed deeper problems. This is the story of how the internet’s most trusted brand lost its place at the centre of email.
