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How To Conquer Email With The R.A.P. Framework
Manage Email Like Eminem For More Signal, Less Noise
I’ll never forget the day I took back control over my inbox. I don’t recall the date, but I’ll always remember the feeling. It was like switching on noise-cancelling headphones.
Liberated from the mindless base task of checking email, I was finally free to look at my schedule and ask:
What’s really important today?
What a gift for productivity. A gift I’d like to pass on to you. Today, you and I will build those noise-cancelling headphones.
Here’s why you urgently need a pair.
The Science Inside Your Inbox
Right now, 269 billion emails are sent every single day. That’s 35 emails in every human’s inbox. Except half the world isn’t even online yet, so you can double that number. Depending on how densely they arrive throughout your day, this comes down to 3–8 emails an hour.
Given it takes about 20 minutes to properly resume an interrupted task, that’s more than enough to make sure you get nothing done, not even counting all the other distractions that arrive every 3 minutes.
