I&#x27;m one of those people with a bajillion unread emails -- 15,615 at the moment, but I feel like this is manufacturing a problem I don&#x27;t have. Inbox zero or whatever does nothing for me. Here&#x27;s like a sample of things I haven&#x27;t bothered to click: &quot;YMCA membership survey&quot;, &quot;Recommended coursera courses&quot;, &quot;grubhub order&quot;, &quot;Mailing list update for a blog I read sometimes&quot;. These aren&#x27;t really things I feel any sort of pressure to read, but I haven&#x27;t put in a filter on them either because sometimes I want to see them. They&#x27;re not really blocking me from seeing my important emails.<p>This notion that I&#x27;m &quot;bad&quot; at email or that I need to &quot;do&quot; something about this; why would I want to fix something that&#x27;s working pretty much exactly how I want?<p>I could go mark them read even though I haven&#x27;t read them and don&#x27;t momentarily care to, but that only holds value to me if you assume that I view my unread email counter like some sort of unfinished task list -- which I don&#x27;t. It&#x27;s literally just a measure of things I haven&#x27;t read. It means nothing to me.