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A calmer inbox, a clearer mind.

Ideas, methods and experience reports on productivity, email and leverage.

In a chain of dominoes, one tile can topple thousands. Your inbox has the same structure. The algorithm finds the tile.

Inbox Zero is a compelling idea. But for most people, it creates as much anxiety as it relieves. There's a simpler model.

You don't have too many emails. You have too many emails competing for the same slot of attention. The fix is a different kind of sorting.