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>Having said that, everyone also knows there are things you put in email and things you only discuss face to face, or over the phone.

A lot of people don't know this. One of my favorite classes in business school was "Business Communications." a lot of the stuff seemed really basic, but I'm amazed how much of it is disregarded in the wild.

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First job out of school (early 1990s), working at a "big" consulting company. All the new hires had it drilled into them that you do not talk about work outside of work. And you never discuss anything client-specific in public, on a plane or in a cab, in a restaurant, etc.

Email wasn't a worry, nobody had it then. I think they had an internal system of some sort but the line staff consultants didn't have access.

I'm curious what kind of obvious examples you might have in mind for someone who never took any business classes.

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