How a Flooded Slack Inbox Nearly Drowned My Productivity — And What Saved Me

Not all remote workdays are created equal. One afternoon, between bouncing Zoom calls and debugging an unexpected customer issue, something snapped—I had 37 unread chats. Not emails. Not project alerts. Just pure, blinking messages from five different channels. At that moment, I realized I wasn’t working remotely; I was remotely working to survive the chaos. […]