We were foolish to create an intelligent inbox.

We were not the only ones to have noticed the countless issues gripping email.
We were certainly not the only ones to have been deeply bothered by them.

We were however, one of the rosy-eyed ones who set out to fix them. Blissfully unaware of the nasty complexities, legacy implementations, unending scopes, and requisite compatibilities, waiting to discourage anyone going for it. ⛰️

There have been multiple attempts. Several email clients.
But considering the huge room for improvement, they are still a handful.
If not for the above, there would've been far, far more.

The ones that did happen - the superhumanly and sparkly email fyxers - should get due credit. They went for an important uphill task.
And they've been good. Well-intending.👍

However, they've also been largely insufficient.
Still deriving from what has been, instead of what can be.
Still building upon presumptive truths, instead of first-principles.
Still inheriting many inefficiencies, instead of tackling them.

We were naive, maybe that's why we questioned everything.
Foolish. Didn't know it was impossible.
So we did it.

Faraday has therefore, been a result of our repeated questioning, superior benchmarking, and incessant problem-solving.
In the end – amazing or not, path-breaking or not – anyone would undoubtedly find it refreshingly original.

That was the objective all along.🙂