A treacherous mountain region where digital communications accumulate at an alarming rate, burying important messages under layers of newsletters you never signed up for.
The avalanche follows Murphy’s Law of Email Physics: the importance of a message is inversely proportional to how easy it is to find. Critical emails sink to the bottom while promotional messages for products you’ll never buy rise to the surface.
Local phenomena include the “unsubscribe paradox” where clicking unsubscribe somehow multiplies your email subscriptions, and the “search function mystery” where emails vanish the moment you need to reference them.
Current inbox status: Inbox infinity