Have you ever noticed how much of life consists of pile reduction? Tasks where your sole involvement is to take the pile, let's call that N, and make N = 0, where 0 is really 0, nothing... or some state of equilibrium. Examples that come to mind:
- emails
- open tabs
- reading through rss feeds, blogs, friend's lists
- books to read
- items on to-do
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