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>I appreciate <person> for <work skill>, <work skill>, <personal quirk>

Felt so robotic it was almost a mail merge

Also feels a little weird that he did those shoutouts in alphabetic order.

To be fair, often one does that to avoid people wondering if the order means something (ie order of importance). It's sometimes meant to signal that they are in no political order, but simply listed alphabetically.

That makes sense. It came off as a little impersonal for some reason, like he was just going down a list of email contacts, but I can see why you might do that on purpose.

The email also lacks any forward-looking plans or action items. OK, so Twitter is the "people's news network". What do we do about it?