"I have something to ask of you" is not a novel term for request. And ask is softer than request, giving the other party more opening to decline. I don't hate it.

> I find that limiting the number of things that drive you up a wall is good.

Me too, but if this is really just a way of saying "this shouldn't upset you", you should just say that. As stated, it comes across as condescending.

I still hate “learning” as a noun though.

I've been reading @TechEmails for years and I've never seen any email as incomprehensible as this one.

I work with execs at our company a lot and am often in their email chains - agree on the lingo and shorthand for stuff, but it’s usually clear. You’d be surprised at how candid people are and how much cussing there can be lol. But I was specifically referring to the clarity of the message.

Either way it’s just an opinion and as I said, I think I was just idealizing too much and expected something else.

It’s possibly to figure out what he meant, but it requires significantly more time than if the sentences were constructed “correctly”.

Missing pronouns are easy to fill in, but consider this sentence:

> But [I] want to use every opportunity to make Cloud Streaming more mainstream the better it is in the long run […]

As soon as I reach “the better it is” I feel a mental jolt because I expect a construction along the lines of “the more <X> the better it is” (apparently this is called a “correlative comparison”); even though I just read the word “more”, it didn’t fit into the expected construction, so I go back over the sentence to see if I misread it.