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One of the appeals of email is asynchronicity—I can compose a well-reasoned proposal, and give my team time to compose a well reasoned counter-proposal.

But after more than a handful of rounds of this, it breaks down. Long email threads are impossible, especially ones that I wasn't originally participating in, but then got cc'd into. There's no easy way to skim and get a summary of the current state and where the heated bits of the proposal are.

That's why I like Dropbox Paper instead of email for these kinds of discussions. Threads spin off of a highlighted snippet, so there's always context to the discussion. Discussion in threads gets resolved, and the doc gets updated to reflect the decision—this means the doc is always canonical when someone new first reads it.

Email will never die because it’s so universally versatile. But specifically for intra-team discussions and decision-making, I'm convinced we can find (and already have found) better solutions.