How Many Books is "too Many" at Once?
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How Many Books is "too Many" at Once?
“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read,” a third reader says, “but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it I who keep changing and seeing new things of which I was not previously aware? Or is reading a construction that assumes form, assembling a great number of variables, and therefore
... See moreItalo Calvino • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Speaking from personal experience, however, it feels clear that for our brains, the act of reading and reflecting on a book is not all that different from the act of writing one. In both cases, we are seeking out novel connections, combining existing concepts to produce new ones. So why do we think of the act of consuming, as opposed to producing, ... See more
No one can juggle multiple projects. You can’t be making different things at the same time. But in the same day? The same week? Can you work as a tattoo artist by day and soundscape designer by night? Can you spend your weekends carving ice sculptures for weddings? Build boats in the summer? Write the great American novel on the side? I think you c
... See moreElysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
do. In reality, three projects is a better limit for creative and/or professional projects because it leaves bandwidth to use for life/personal projects and accounts for the work we’re doing but not counting.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
The alternative approach is to fix a hard upper limit on the number of things that you allow yourself to work on at any given time. In their book Personal Kanban, which explores this strategy in detail, the management experts Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry suggest no more than three items.4 Once you’ve selected those tasks, all other incomin
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
You might already know some of the following statements to be true about yourself: ● I like to leave my afternoons free to focus on one thing ● I cannot multitask ● I procrastinate if a task is too big or requires a lot of brainpower ● Towards the end of the week, I find it easier to get into a flow