A psychological block to Inbox Zero
Jul. 15th, 2011 10:29 amI realized this morning as I was working my way through my mailbox that I have a psychological block to Inbox Zero, and it's a pretty obvious one: as long as there's mail in there, more mail doesn't seem like a call to action. I don't have to do anything, it can't possibly be a priority, there's mail ahead of it. I can be lazy about it.
Once you're down to Inbox Zero, though, the next email has 100% of your priority. Period. It has 100% right to demand a context switch in order to deal with it. That's pretty annoying. Better to live with the current big pile just staring at me, looking undifferentiated.
Once you're down to Inbox Zero, though, the next email has 100% of your priority. Period. It has 100% right to demand a context switch in order to deal with it. That's pretty annoying. Better to live with the current big pile just staring at me, looking undifferentiated.
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