On election day, here’s one more thing we can learn from Abraham Lincoln. An excerpt:
When he used an electronic message Lincoln maximized its impact by using carefully chosen words. His August 1864 telegram to General Grant, “Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew and choke” could not have been more explicitly expressed. Emails, on the other hand, have tended to become the communications equivalent of casual Fridays, substituting comfort and ease for discipline and rigor.
Good stuff.