Reminders for myself
The 3/3/3 technique is basically a closed list. And in Four Thousand Weeks I outlined another closed-list approach to managing your workflow: first, make one big “open list” of everything that’s on your plate, even if it’s 500 items long; then make a second, closed list, with (say) ten slots on it. Feed ten items from the open list over to the clos... See more
The Imperfectionist: Living two hours in the future
Oliver Burkeman
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
We should see these old, archaic, religious observances, rites and rituals not as rarified, pre-technological, discrete phenomena but as behaviours that legitimately held important sway for people and cultures for thousands of years. We’ve somehow taken the various schticks out of spiritual practices and upended them into modern-day conveniences, f... See more
Talking to the Refrigerator: Adventures in Not-Doing
from me
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