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“People ought to stop emailing me. But I also don’t want to be lonely or less busy.”

Please enjoy this delightful gem about the problem with email by Daniel Lavery. Personally, I think an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-style erasure tool for our inboxes is in order. Until that arrives, the last line of this piece sums it up neatly: “Good luck.”

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