Email is essential—and exhausting. For those whose workdays revolve around their inbox, two hidden habits can quietly derail productivity: using email as a to-do list and allowing it to become an unfiltered firehose of noise. This episode breaks down why both practices are so damaging, and how a little intentional structure can reclaim your focus. From the psychological impact of reactive tasking to a ruthless (but effective) inbox rule strategy, it’s a call to treat email less like a default workflow and more like the tool it was meant to be.