Something not brought up thus far in the comments is the asynchronous nature of email. That's why it's often a vastly superior communications medium to phone co

Something not brought up thus far in the comments is the asynchronous nature of email. That's why it's often a vastly superior communications medium to phone conversations or talking face-to-face. I can respond to an email when it's most convenient for me, and I have some time to carefully plan out what I want to say. Not so for phone conversations. Throughout my career, I've been dragged into literally hundreds of meetings over issues that could have been sorted out with email chains with far less time and effort.