Side comment: my math professor in college (a logician Simon Thomas) shared a math puzzle with us about a hydra that grows copies of her heads when cut off acco

Side comment: my math professor in college (a logician Simon Thomas) shared a math puzzle with us about a hydra that grows copies of her heads when cut off according to some math rule. The process made it seem like there would be no way to ever kill the hydra, but our professor said there was a proof that you could, just by working through one head at a time (even randomly). Many years later, while drowning in links (reading one article made me bookmark several more), this story gave me hope that I could reach inbox zero just by reading, undaunted by the growing backlog. https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/undergrad/Activities/Lectures/2004program4.html https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/undergrad/Activities/Lectures... My personal strategy is to add things to Pocket or bookmarks, and then, if a year later I'm still interested in reading it, I'll read it.