When paper beats the screen
I recall when as an IT department head I had a difficult CEO who often changed his mind (he seemed to always hold the view of the last person who spoke to him).<p>My response was to refuse email from him (as emails can be ephemeral). Second, I requested all his future instructions to me be in words written physically in the form of black atoms adhered to sheets of white atoms and signed by his own hand in blue atoms at the end.<p>It dismayed him and everyone including my staff some of whom I&#x27;d instructed to block my emails—yes, I&#x27;m likely one of the few heads of an IT department in history who refused to have an email address.<p>Yes, it worked and he complied and ultimately I had the last laugh but that was only after the feud had become newspaper headlines.