anatomy of a caught signal
The line Marc buried in paragraph four.
Marc replied at 11pm with six paragraphs about timelines and team structure. Buried in the fourth, almost in passing, was the sentence that actually mattered: budget sign-off now runs through Sofia.
✦ heidiParagraph four. He just told you who really signs, and it isn't him. You'd have skimmed to the ask and missed it. I didn't.
I flagged it, pulled Sofia's name up from the call two weeks earlier, and drafted a reply that looped her in without making it awkward. The thread you were about to leave on read became a scheduled next step.
HeidiYou get sixty of these a day. I read all six paragraphs of every one, so the sentence that matters never slips past you.