Emails
Get to the point without sounding curt. Learn the structure that gets a reply instead of silence.
Micro-lessons for reluctant writers
Writing lessons for people who would rather not write
Five minutes. One real before-and-after. One thing you can use in your next email. Dojomi covers the writing that actually fills your week: emails, Slack, status updates, meeting notes, and proposals.
Slack Messages
Say what you mean in three lines or fewer, so tone doesn't get lost between the words and the reader's assumptions.
Status Updates
Format updates so a manager can scan them in thirty seconds and know exactly where things stand.
Meeting Notes
Capture decisions and owners clearly enough that nobody has to ask "wait, who's doing this?"
Most writing advice was never written for you
It was written for novelists, journalists, and people who already like sentences. You don't need craft. You need your Tuesday morning email to stop getting ignored, and your status update to stop generating a follow-up meeting.
Dojomi assumes you're busy, mildly allergic to writing advice, and mostly correct that most of it doesn't apply to your job. Each lesson strips a real workplace message down to what made it confusing, then rebuilds it in front of you. No theory chapters. No grammar drills. Just the line that changed, and why.
Why this approach
Built around how work writing actually fails
Five minutes, start to finish
Every lesson fits inside a coffee break. Read the before, see the after, take the one rule, and get back to your inbox.
Before-and-after, not theory
You see a real message rewritten line by line. It's easier to copy a pattern than to memorize a principle.
Written for actual jobs
Every example comes from ordinary work situations: status reports, vendor emails, standups, and proposal decks that need a yes.
Focused on outcomes
Not "better prose." A reply that comes back. A meeting that doesn't need a recap. A proposal that gets a decision.
A lesson, condensed
One rewrite, side by side
This is roughly what a lesson looks like once you strip away the wrapper. A real email, trimmed down, with the reasoning shown instead of hidden.
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Before
"Hi team, just wanted to check in and see if there were any updates on the thing we discussed last week regarding budget approvals. Let me know when you get a chance, no rush at all, just following up on this. Thanks so much!"
After
"Hi team, following up on budget approvals from last week. I need a yes or no by Thursday to keep the vendor timeline on track. Can you confirm status today?"
Inside a lesson
What five minutes actually looks like
01
Read the before
A message pulled from real workplace situations, cringe intact.
02
See it rebuilt
Line by line, with a short note on what changed and why.
03
Take one rule
A single, reusable move you can apply the next time you write.
04
Try it once
A short prompt to apply the rule to something on your own plate.