Slack, which has nonfunctional search and is miserable to navigate?
Github readmes?
Atlassian's wiki, which has even more broken search, and follows management's whims?
Google docs, which vary widely in format, is not easily searchable, and has no index?
Team documentation, which follows managements whims, gets moved around, deprecated and eventually stowed in unused lavatories?
Internal stackoverflow, which is piloted and then slowly abandoned after an intial big push my managers, who get promoted and then leave the company?
Facebook workplace, which suffers a similar fate to stackoverflow?
The problem is there is no global index or search- think Sourcegraph, and management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months.
Are you saying that Sourcegraph's management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months? (Just not sure how to parse this sentence.)
A tool like Sourcegraph but for finding documentation could be useful, but it doesn't show you the amount of "dead" documentation that's floating out there, or give you a way to browse everything.
No, "overcommunicating", by definition, means giving more information than what is needed.
There are times and places where overcommunicating works, but email is almost never one of them. You simply can't get away with more than a few sentences in an email unless the recipients are specifically expecting that from you.
When "an essay" lands in someone's inbox unexpectedly, at best, you can expect recipients to skim it for whatever concerns them directly. If you have critical points or conditions embedded in a paragraph in the middle, those are probably going fly past the recipients' attention completely unnoticed.