What are you imagining the hayday of email to have been like? It sounds like you're describing AIM in the 90s, or SMS in the early 00's. Before that there was IRC if you wanted realtime responses. Email has always been async.
Mind you, nobody has ever introduced me to a friend via social media.
Meanwhile, SMS is still going strong. Who needs an app?
This is why you finally give up on the verge? What would you refer to the memo as: a cool-headed rational argument? I don't even think the engineer understood what he was arguing for; misogyny isn't hard to see, regardless of the intentions.
The weirdest and most uncomfortable part is that he cares enough to alienate his employees, but not enough to encourage productive discussion. It seems like bitterness and resentment towards women.
While I understand why you might not like the phrasing, it speaks deeply about you that this is the one of thousands of verge factual errors you choose to criticize.
Well, multicore isn't going away; concurrency (if not parallelism) is necessary for responsive UIs.
Did you have any specific improvements? The big requirements for distributed programming are mostly protobuf serialization and tcp/http; swift has both already.