[rolleiflex]

This isn’t the only way email could be. You can remove the whole ‘cc’ aspect, make it work within channels just like Slack, and most of the awkwardness melts away, while you keep the good, async parts.

The reason email is stuffy is that it allows you too granular an ability to choose and modify who gets to see it as a conversation goes on. A simpler concept of a channel goes some way to solve that.

That said, be forewarned: I’m biased, I make a tool that makes email work like Slack. (https://aether.app)

If anything, one thing we’ve noticed using Aether is that it makes people drop ‘Hi Jane’ style heading and signatures at the bottom after a while, naturally.