Hot take: I sat in a meeting in Austin and realized I had been sending status emails for 2 years that nobody read

Joel Clark · 2026-10-18T21:00:04.493614+00:00

I always thought the long Friday update email was how you looked good at work. Then my manager Dana pulled me aside after a meeting in Austin and asked why I kept sending stuff she already knew from our Tuesday check-ins. She showed me her inbox and my emails were sitting unopened in a folder for 2 years. Now I just say it in the meeting and my Fridays are 40 minutes shorter, has anyone else figured out which updates people actually want?

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