Most of us don’t set out trying to control everything in our lives. We’re just trying to make it feel manageable. So we plan. We organize. We build systems. We tighten routines. We think ahead and anticipate problems before they happen. And for a while, it works....
Most of us think of clutter as something physical — piles on the counter, stacks of paper, the chair that somehow becomes a clothing rack. But there’s another kind of clutter most of us live with every single day. It’s the unread emails.The notifications that never...