Culture & Commentary / Rant / 1 min read

A brief word with the reply-all button.

With great clicking power comes absolutely no discernible responsibility.

Yellow megaphone collage

Dear Reply All: you are not a community-building exercise. You are a very small button with an astonishing capacity for chaos.

“Thanks!” to thirty-six people. “Noted!” to the same thirty-six people. Then an urgent plea to stop replying all, sent, naturally, to all.

Somewhere in this digital confetti storm is the original question. Nobody remembers it. Nobody ever will.

Please consider the quiet dignity of Reply. Just Reply. A button with boundaries. What a concept.

End of thought. For now.More where that came from

Another rabbit hole?

A hospital wristband, blood pressure cuff and a row of empty stars on deep teal

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0/10 stars: a review of my recent three-week hospital stay.

Unruly blood pressure, dramatic sinuses, and a checkout that kept getting rescheduled.

TRUE STORY

A fax machine, gold medal and flaming hoops on a tangerine backdrop

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The referral olympics: a sport nobody trained for.

First your insurance, then your patience, then your will to fax.

A melting wall clock above a row of empty waiting-room chairs, with sparkles

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The waiting room is a time warp. Nobody warned me.

Time enters. Time does not exit. Science is baffled.