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How to write an email:
Do:
*Keep it classy with salutations*
This is a mentality trick to prevent being too familiar, vulgar, flippant, or unkind (in short, sending emails you later regret)
EX
Dear X, …. Sincerely, Y
Do:
*Reread and edit*
Assume your email will be shared widely
EX
I try to remind myself that my emails might be read in court, not because I want them to be, I certainly hope not, but because it forces me to put a foot forward that I could stand behind
Do:
*Embrace lists*
Use bullet points and identify the number of issues at the top if there are multiple action items or asks
EX
*Tell me what you think
*Let me know if this timeline works for you
*Send me that photo from last week
Do:
*Follow through*
If you say you will do something in an email, put it on your to do list at that moment and give a timeline (for the benefit of yourself and the recipient)
EX
I will find that document and scan it to you by next Wednesday
I will talk with Jerry and call you before the end of the month with our decision
Don’t:
Bury the lede
EX
Subject line: Signature from ABC needed
Don’t:
Over share
If you can’t do something, can’t make an appt at the proposed time, or lack the information to respond at the moment just say so. The ‘why’ is usually not necessary.
EX
*No, I don’t have capacity to take that on.
*That time doesn’t work. Here are my windows of availability.
*I can’t answer that right now but will follow up when and if I gain additional details.
#writing #email #howto
Raw goat ice cream is a revelation. It’s my blue ribbon summertime farm stand find.
Playing with Unleashed.chat
A bit of an AI neophyte but want to know what all the LLM fuss is about.
Brick? Wisephone? The Light Phone? Daylight?
Any reviews. What’s best?
GetRawMilk.com is a top five site.
Life straws are an underrated tool to have around. Keep out micro plastics in the near term. Keep out amoebas in the long term.
Anybody learn the envelope method for budgeting? It’s simple and awesome.
📩 Put cash in envelopes for monthly expenses:
Ex: (obv, adjust amounts and categories to your situation)
*Food*
One month of groceries:
4 envelopes each with $300 (assume you shop once a week)
Groceries subtotal: $1,200
Eat out
4 envelopes each with $75 (assume you eat dinner out once a week)
Eat out subtotal: $300
Food Total: $1,500
*Housing*
Rent/mortgage:
1 envelope with $1,800
Rent subtotal: $1,800
Utilities:
1 envelope with $50 for trash
1 envelope with $50 for nat gas
1 envelope with $100 for electric
Utilities subtotal: $200
Housing total: $2,000
*Transportation*
Fuel
4 envelopes each with $80 (assuming one tank per week)
Fuel subtotal: $320
Car insurance
1 envelope with $240
Car insurance subtotal: $240
Maintenance/repair/service
1 envelope with $50
Transportation total: $610
Essentials monthly total: $4,110
Note: Each category should have one additional envelope that you put unused funds into as petty cash emergency funds for each category
Underrated privacy hack:
Save in #Bitcoin
Pay in cash (physical bills)
Bonus points:
Bring back a petty cash drawer/safe and make regular ATM withdrawals
Thinking about how to secure a home for modern privacy
Best hacks to have a private life IRL:
💵 Use cash
📚Thrift physical books, older is better
🔐Carry a Faraday bag for electronics
🐂 Shake your ranchers’ hand
🩹Book time with an herbalist and handle minor medical outside the healthcare system (and no, don’t be stupid, if you need a doc, see a doc)
📝🔥Keep physical notes and burn them in a campfire every so often if they aren’t sentimental or necessary any longer
🗃️Keep vital info and personal journals in a safe
What else?
Privacy improvement tools for n00bs so far:
Chat: Signal
Social: Nostr
Email: Proton mail (or other pgp email)
Web: VPN (what’s best?)
Browser: Brave or other browser (again, what’s best?)
Money: Lightning wallet (Mutiny or other?)
Store of Value: BTC self custody
Notes/task management: Joplin (as with everything, tell me what’s better?)
I’m interested in building a private life for myself and my family. What are the best tools for a n00b? What about leveling up from the basics?
