>"Why we feel overwhelmed<p>We live in an age of information and communication overload, with significant pressure to “do more” or “learn more.” There is a never-ending stream of requests for our attention, and email is the main source of such requests in the workplace.<p>As a result:<p>o People constantly feel they are missing out on something and need to do more, resulting in stress and unhappiness.<p><i>o Relentless interruptions prevent people from completing tasks quickly.</i> (*)<p>o Instead of working on their most important task, people choose the “loudest” or the last to catch their attention. As a result, important work gets delayed or never completed.<p>o Believing they could’ve done more throughout the day, people feel even more miserable.<p>Current communication tools from email applications, like Outlook and Gmail, to chat apps, like Slack and Microsoft teams, don’t do anything to counter this natural dynamic."<p>(*) PDS: Or completing them at all...<p>...the greater the task undertaken, the greater the need for large swaths of <i>uninterrupted time</i>... frequently over a day, sometimes more than several days, a week, a month, a year, or even several years -- for big-time, big-league, press-the-envelope, move-the-needle, gargantuan human achievements...