Email as a Task Manager and Everything Inbox: The Progress Trap - Deepstash

Email as a Task Manager and Everything Inbox: The Progress Trap

All the subsequent waves of productivity software that we’re going to look at arose in reaction to the Email Big Bang, like gravitational waves echoing across the universe for eons. Each of them is an attempt to solve the problem of information overload that was unleashed upon humanity half a century ago.

Example: Automobiles seemed miraculous until they started crowding the highways and blackening the skies (this is called a Progress Trap).

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