No, dear villains, I will not be reading your emails.
Your message’s fate is to hit a filter I built in Outlook, get marked as read, and land in a holding folder — where it’ll either be processed by an AI that summarises it for me, or deleted outright.
Either way, my eyes will never meet your ‘kind regards’.
I stopped reacting to every “urgent” that lands in my inbox because most of them aren’t. 90% of emergencies resolve themselves. All it takes is waiting.
This isn’t arrogance — it’s the Napoleon Technique. The legend goes that the little emperor had already figured out two centuries ago what we still can’t manage today: he’d delay reading his correspondence until the problem simply disappeared, on the grounds that if everything is urgent, nothing truly is.
I’d rather spend my time thinking, deciding, creating. Not chasing other people’s notifications and anxieties.
So — which side are you on? Team Napoleon or Team Inbox Slave?