The Too-Long Email is Getting Shorter

Microsoft’s John Porcaro explains how, increasingly, his patience with emails more than 3 or 4 paragraphs long is waining:

The longer I “live” in the world of email, the more intolerant I am of long-winded text. I’m growing impatient with reading long documents, plowing through long email threads, reading long magazine articles, and browsing text-heavy web sites. Give me the gist. Give me what I need to know. Give me some charts or pretty pictures. And if I need more information, tell me where I can get it.