This is a rather simple and should be obvious pro-tip: Delay all email from being sent. This helps to catch emails that have the wrong tone, message, audience or content before it’s sent. This tip has saved me from sending an badly formed email, or to the wrong audience many times. Just today I caught a work email that was missing information. It makes a difference from sending a brief and context email into sending a fully detailed email.

Why does this work really well?

I believe that this works really well because, like unit testing, it causes the author to separate the content creation with the later review. It forces one to reflect on what was created rather than to falsely believe what was written was perfect. It also gives us a chance to give more meaning and promotes a stronger signal to noise ratio in your messages. From my person experience little is gained from responding and sending anything immediately. Delays are a well accepted and expected situation when dealing with human to human communication.

That’s nice, but how would I do that?