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Email & focus
The real cost of email overload is the attention it drains, more than the hours it takes. Ideas on triage, digests, and getting to a genuinely quiet inbox.
Beemy vs. a general-purpose AI assistant: the long version
Any AI can draft you a reply if you ask nicely. The real question is what it does when you're not asking. Does it know enough about your life to do it well? Here's the long answer.
Handled, without another tab
A wave of proactive-brief tools (Pulse, Google's Proactive Assistance, Cora) all want to be the thing you open each morning. Presence isn't the bar. Here's why context depth and silo safety are what actually earn the open.
Inbox zero is the wrong goal
Chasing an empty inbox optimises for the wrong number. The real goal is the right interruptions, and escalation, done well, is a deliberate feature.
The real cost of email overload (it's not the hours)
The average worker gets 117 emails a day and is interrupted roughly every 2 minutes. But the bigger cost isn't the hours. It's what those interruptions do to your ability to focus on anything else.
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