# What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Joe Pinsker]]
- Full Title: What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/not-sorry-for-my-delay/621264/

## Highlights
- One of my favorite suggestions was to omit the apology and just write the email as you would if you were responding right away. “I think the other person cares more about the content, not the speed, of my response,” Giurge, the co-author of the email study, told me.