Inbox Cleaning is a Time Machine

The sense of elation one gets from being liberated from the shackles of an overcrowded inbox is wonderful. A personal milieu long polluted with marketing outreach, subscription alerts, and welcome-back offers. In my own case, this number reached a staggering 34,985 emails over 7 years. This is excluding those automatically screened out by Google’s super-human promotional material-detecting algorithms.

2021, for me, represents an opportunity to start anew with a tabula rasa on a number of fronts, including a new job, a new house, and — motivated by a new years’ resolution —…