Your inbox is a collection of other people's to-do lists. One speaker limits email to 20 minutes a day, arguing that the constraint forces important messages to surface and stops you from mindlessly spending hours on others' requests.
Your inbox is basically a list of other people's to do's outsourced to you. I force myself to spend only 20 minutes on email a day. You will immediately see in your inbox what is most important if you only have 20 minutes. If I just keep spending money without any intention or plan and just give it away to anyone that walks up to me, you would say I'm crazy. You would say I'm reckless. But that's exactly what everyone's doing when with their time. Someone says, hey, let's do something. And you're like, yeah, let's do it. Because you didn't allocate your time to anything else. Another example is your inbox. If you spend a lot of time in your inbox, this is super, super dangerous.
