I'm a big fan of the "executive summary" approach. Give a one or two sentence overview, followed by the details if anyones interested. I once worked with a sen

I'm a big fan of the "executive summary" approach. Give a one or two sentence overview, followed by the details if anyones interested. I once worked with a senior engineer who would write incredibly long, detailed emails to the point that his manager would ask, how do you have time to write these and not complete this (underspecified, unrealistic) task? He ended up getting PIP'ed and fired. I counseled him many times to keep his emails to 4-5 sentences tops. He just couldn't do it.