The Smart Way To Deal With Email

David Kingsbury
5 min readMar 7, 2022
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The average knowledge worker spends over a quarter of their workday in their email inbox. That’s roughly two hours per day.

Anecdotally, people I know say they spend 25–33% of their working hours in their inbox. There’s no way that is the best use of their time.

Even though I get more emails than most of them, I spend no more than one hour a day on it. It all comes down to how…

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David Kingsbury

Ex-coach turned Copywriter | Words in Start It Up, Mind Cafe, The Ascent, P.S. I Love You + more | Want me to write your emails or web content? DM me here/on X