How to Quickly Clear Your Inbox

If you get really good answering email on a quick tempo, what happens is you just get much more email, right? So you don't make your life easier. And this is like a standard finding about the sort of unintended consequences of efficiency improvements in every area of life. If all you do to any kind of system is just make it more efficient rather than thinking more seriously about what to focus on, then all else being equal, you'll just attract more and more inputs to that system. It will be as busy or as busier than it was before. That can't be got by becoming more efficient because all you're doing is getting quicker and quicker and quicker with an infinite supply of