Give people nicknames. Give everyone a nickname. It doesn’t even need to make a ton of sense, but I think it’s a sign of effraction for someone to have something special you call them. Make it their contact name too.
a kid I knew in college randomly started calling me this one day and it caught on to the point people who never met me were referring to me as Bidgii. Added bonus is it’s pretty much universally available as a username. Part of its advent as solidified in my lore is this post it I just discovered in the campus coffee shop that the friend had put up for me to notice (pictured below)
if the text requires more than 3 sentences it’s a voice memo! the efficiency of just getting to speak! the intimacy of sending your voice and the process of gathering your thoughts in real time! the presence of tone and vocal inflection! i actually aspire to only ever communicate via phone calls and voice memos. texting is such a menace in my life.
