inbox zero and being an adult

pain When I was a kid, I used to watch my mom work a lot after school. One of the things that stood out to me as a dumb child was the fact that she had thousands of unread emails. Of course, I wanted to be a mature adult too - when I opened my first email, it was a bit sad to see no notifications. my first received email, kind of nostalgic in a way Of course, that meant I was signing up for random things to get numbers - turning on notification emails, news updates from MSN, that kind of thing. As I eventually actually started using email for real purposes, the noise only increased. Eventually I just naturally had a thousand unreads, most of them not really worth reading. But there really was no reason to have that many emails. It's not like anyone was looking at my unread emails bubble on my iPhone, and it's not like the amount of emails you got even meant anything. I just started it because it felt 'adult'. I remember when I was interviewing for a volunteering position at the local…