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Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:00 -0600

My inbox never fully empties (Inbox Zero is a myth). That’s been true of email for decades, and it’s now true of everything else — newsletters, Slack channels, LinkedIn, and good old RSS feeds. Every solution to information overload eventually became another source of it. The volume kept growing, but my reading time didn’t.

For a while I handled it the way most people do by defaulting to faster skimming and lighter engagement, relying more on something interesting surfacing through a conversation or a forwarded link. That’s a fragile system.

Information-Consumption on David R. Longnecker - Converting Coffee to Code

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