Ask HN: Whose business operates without email?Is anyone successfully operating a business without email? Please describe pros, cons, how you got there, etc.Rant:I'm sick of email. It's become the "universal inbox". We never predicted just how awful that would be. Let me count the ways...Chat. Email has become live chat, despite more suitable platforms existing. I first saw this with Blackberry, but this is now prevalent in white-collar industries. People expect rapid responses. This is hugely detrimetal to morale and work-life balance.Fire-and-forget. Optional bonus: workload shuffling. We all send emails like "Here's X, let me know if/when Y" and tick-off a todo item. But this is emblematic of a terrible workflow: get it off my desk ASAP and off-load responsibility to someone else. Inevitably this multiplies someone else's workload and encourages short-termism. The individual looks productive to management, since their throughput is high, but they're contributing to a pervasive syrup which clogs the business and lowers morale.Wor