I Confessed to 60,000 Unread Emails. Then Everyone Told Me What I Was Doing Wrong | The Walrus

A writer who previously confessed to having more than 60,000 unread emails followed up after readers weighed in, some proudly declaring themselves Inbox Zero devotees and others just as content to let messages pile up indefinitely. Responses ranged from a reader celebrating a two-message inbox to another suggesting the writer simply hit delete and move on.

The piece leans on decades-old psychology, from Bluma Zeigarnik's research on unfinished tasks to Herbert Simon's concept of satisficing, to explain why some people treat an inbox as an anxiety-inducing to-do list and others treat it as a library or a graveyard. The writer reports she remains unmoved and has no plans to clean out her inbox.

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