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like that I like that effect occasionally. You'll see most of my words are short. I don't like a lot of syllables in my stuff, but occasionally I want to go for that. And then because it's rare you feel it differently. Um and so that's where that that goes. When you say because it's rare, avalanche of automated, like those rare more rare words. Like a lot of syllables. Avalanche automated. That is like a it's like coming across it's like going on a walk and coming across like a lizard. Uh and you're like, "That's a beautiful I don't see that very often. Like that I'm going to look at that now." That's how it feels here. It's kind of a weird super weird analogy, but but but but but it's like coming across something you don't see very often. So we're in the rest of the words it's pretty tight and short and

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but then there's these occasional things that stand out. And I wanted the avalanche of automated cuz that's how it feels. It feels like an avalanche. Like you're out of control of an avalanche. You're caught in it. You can't do anything about it. Of course it can be tragic. This is not that, but it's this barrage. It's this force Yep. that feels like it never stops when it comes to email. So I wanted that's what I wanted to get after. Ain't that right? Yep. Also, this is something that I think every writer can implement is whatever your predominant style is, if you do the opposite when you want to emphasize something, it'll stand out because it is distinct and different. 100%. That's great. I agree with that. Now email feels like a chore rather than a joy. Something you fall behind on. Something you clear out, not cherish.

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Rather than delight in it, you deal with it. Right. So more than I would like. Yeah, so this is this is where I'm taking email away from the things that are pleasant. Like the you know, getting an email from a friend, hearing from a family member, whatever. Like that's you can envision that. These are now And that's how most people think about email. It's like, "Yeah, that this this is avalanche of automated stuff, all these hassles. Like yeah, this I'm not into email." So I'm setting the stage to turn the stage Right. And flip it around. So I want people to go, "Yeah, yep." Again, nod their head. "Yeah, this sucks. I yeah, this sucks." Sean Perry has a line that he shared on this podcast that I really like where he

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says, "All stories are about the 5-second moment of change." And what he's saying is that there's something that happens at the beginning and then at the end it will be the opposite of what's going on. So take your classic rom-com, right? You have somebody who's in state A and they have all these things going on and by the end of the rom-com it'll be the opposite. They're going to go through a transformation. And that's exactly what we're about to see in the next section. That's a great point. And yet and yet email remains a wonder. So I think that what you've done here is you've said this is what's happened with email. You sort of set up this pain, this annoyance, this sort of agony of having to check your email. And now what you're about to do is you have that change into sort of delightness and the sense of Yes. And the word wonder and earlier the word treasure. So whenever I'm talking

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about the positive aspects of of email, it's like really special positive thing. They're enchanted words. Yes. So I I I you know, I didn't like go through thesaurus to find these. They just came out. But but but they come out in a way where um they are the right words for that statement. And I I couldn't come up with better ones. I really wanted to think of them that way. Thanks to email, people across cultures, continents, countries, cities, and seas, all seas. Oh I I I caught that. Here's another one. Right. Communicate every day. It's It's simple. Boom boom. It makes it easy for two humans to share their love and for millions of people to earn a living. There you go. There's a lot of