How to Get Out of the Nightmare of Email

We have to touch email less, and we have to compose email better. Clarity is is everything exactly clear in what you're saying. Brevity is shrinking the word count to be as tight as possible. Can you use bolding, underlining bullets? Things to help busy skimmers? Cause email people don't read email. They skim email. You must tell people when something is expected otherwise they fall prey to this hallucinated urgency everywhere.