I wake up every morning to an inbox that is almost unmanageable. It’s overrun with LinkedIn notifications and marketing emails. Email has become a stressful slog that I find myself procrastinating. Prior to the announcement that Basecamp was working on an e-mail service, I had spent a few months trying every email client in the App Store. But, I ultimately kept defaulting back to iOS Mail and macOS mail. So, I was open to trying a new service.
»I’ll warn you up front the reason I’ve switched is superficial and unsatisfying.
»By all accounts I’ve had an incredibly successful career. I came from a poor family and built a career in one of the highest paying professions in the country. I am incredibly lucky.
»Last week, I had a four hundred word breakdown on the internet. It was a pretty low point for me. The isolation and the stress were getting to me and I just felt powerless in the face of everything we’re dealing with. But, I have a lot to be grateful for and I think it would be good to balance out last week’s post with a blog post about the thing I’m most thankful for right now.
»This is going to be much different than my normal blog posts. It’s not going to be a fun or thoughtful article. It’s going to be emotional and ranty. I want to start out by saying that I know that I’m not alone. That others are feeling these same things. This is not a unique experience. But, I hate this.
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