Alternatively, instead of saying “Thank you” end every interaction with “Fuck you” to cost them just as much.

Bullet points. If you don’t have a rapport spell things out paragraph style and then finish the email off with something like this…

So considering the above I’d like to get your opinion on these points:

Do you think the widget should be blue or orange?

Given the expected market impact do we want to bring in PR for our e-widget announcement?

OP’s last paragraph contains three question marks and essentially one question - the first is their actual question with the following two being escalating statements. If you threw this into a work email with five other questions some people’s brains would seize up and just refuse to answer more than one question because they’re not certain if there are six or eight genuine questions.

In life and especially a professional setting we’re interacting with people in the top 1% of communication skills… and the bottom 25%.

Considering your wording in the last paragraph, I’m going to guess that your writing style is frequently overwhelming. Making sure that questions are clearly isolated (I’d suggest using numeric lists or bullet points) makes it clear what response you’re expecting.

Additionally, if you’re asking several difficult questions, it’s likely that people will lose the thread partway through.

I don’t always namespace but when I do I fully qualify.

Be very careful with mutual funds in this climate. Most are heavily weighted towards the Mag7 which include some of the most massively overinflated stocks.

I moved my stocks into non-US bonds and GICs when the first round of tariffs against us (Canada) happened. At this point I think it’d be a terrible idea to jump ship because you’ll realize that loss.

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With our powers united we will summon Captain Planet!