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Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
read the first page and be let down? Here’s how to minimize book guilt by prioritizing the books you’ve already bought and making smarter choices about what to buy and when going forward.
Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
With so many books and magazines, not only is the worth of each volume devalued, but we also end up not looking at each one carefully—which leads us to miss what we should be taking in. I think it is important to be able to discern what is truly essential.
Hayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
There's no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that it was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place. I like to think of it as the productivity technique to beat all productivity techniques: finally internalizing the implications of the fact that what's genuinely... See more