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Trey Williams

Email refuses to go away, despite how much we hate it

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I receive, on any given workday, upwards of 100 or so emails, although receive probably isn't the right word. Rather, they clank into my inbox from all manner of tryhards who "hope this finds you well.” It’s a constant disruption to the flow of whatever work I'm desperately trying to focus on. "Maybe this one's important,” I often think.

They rarely are, but the emails keep coming all the same. The status of my personal Gmail account is sadly worse.

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