Yesterbox
Answer only yesterday's email today, so the queue never grows
Tony Hsieh's answer to an inbox that never empties. Each morning you work the mail that arrived yesterday and leave today's alone until tomorrow, which turns an endless stream into a finite list. New arrivals still get a scan for anything genuinely urgent. The appeal is that the list ends.
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Organizational psychologist · Think Again
Picked up from a Tim Ferriss blog post about Tony Hsieh's system, and he found it genuinely useful. Answering all of yesterday's email today, he says, is what keeps the backlog from building.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #399 transcript
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