Maintain Your Friendships With a Boring Weekly Email Thread

Maintain Your Friendships With a Boring Weekly Email Thread
Gave yourself a home haircut? Started drinking more water? Fixed the creaky garage door? No life update is too mundane.
Michael Thompson
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3 min read·
Oct 7, 2020
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Photo: Vesnaandjic/Getty ImagesTwo of my childhood friends and I maintain an email thread that’s both active and aggressively boring. In one recent message, my buddy Josh told us about the…
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Written by Michael Thompson
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I grew up stuttering and now teach storytelling to Fortune 500s, MBA students, and first graders • Free "story" guide: https://bit.ly/3h1KZeT
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