"There is a staggering amount of stuff in most of our email that we can choose to either, that we can choice to let go of," he says. "I would really always, and I still do this today, start with the most recent emails and work backward." If you're going to get through 1,000 or even like 50 emails, it's more encouraging to come up with 40 tasks for each one,. He adds: "It gives you a weird amount of perspective to go, whoa, am I really going to do these 40 things?"