There’s a lot of crap in my inbox. Not necessarily junk mail or spam, just things I have zero interest in ever opening — college alumni drives, flight deals, promotions from a swanky London gym I once feigned interest in for the sake of a free trial. Every few weeks I’ll go through my Gmail and mindlessly clear them out, but there’s always one email that catches my eye.

I don’t remember ever joining Quora, or even why I did it. When it launched to the public in 2010, the site billed itself as a high-quality question-and-answer forum, like Yahoo Answers with actual answers. Maybe I had questions, maybe I was looking for answers. All I know for sure is that I never used it, though it still occupies space in my brain thanks to its…

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