The Zero Sum Game

Every now and then I glance at someone’s phone or computer screen and notice that they have thousands of unread email messages. I could never live like that. My natural state is inbox zero. According to one researcher, I fall into a camp of those who are “more susceptible to feeling a loss of control [and] in missing out on information.” I’ve got a 174 tabs open right now. I’m more worried about missing out on life. But still, I must be at zero. From Joe Pinsker in The Atlantic, Inbox Zero vs. Inbox 5,000: A Unified Theory.

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