My inbox is killing me

Email is evil and my inbox was full of demons, 250 of them. Getting them down to 10 may have saved my sanity. Here’s that story.

Lisa Bage
4 min readAug 16, 2024

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My inbox was at 250 emails yesterday.

It’s now at 10. 🥳 🎈🍾

If you’ve worked with me before, you know that I think email was invented to destroy the world.

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I don’t care how organized you are, email is where information goes to die.

Or to be hoarded by that one employee in the organization. You know the one. The email savant.

Me: “Wasn’t there an email about that?”

Employees whips out the paper version like a surgical nurse whipping out just the right clamp in the middle of the surgical emergency.

Email savant: “Here it is, from 1994 at 3:30 in the afternoon, originally written by Employee #3 who hasn’t been at the company in 20 years.”

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I love that employee. They’ve saved me dozens of times from implementing something…

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Lisa Bage

Former CEO helping managers build better teams and stronger workplaces. Get personal help at https://www.copperleafsolutions.com/contact.