Saved by Chad Aaron Hall and
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
The critical question isn’t how to differentiate between activities that matter and those that don’t, but what to do when far too many things feel at least somewhat important, and therefore arguably qualify as big rocks. Fortunately, a handful of wiser minds have addressed exactly this dilemma, and their counsel coalesces around three main principl... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
focus on one big project at a time (or at most, one work project and one nonwork project) and see it to completion before moving on to what’s next.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Carnegie’s benefit was not from the list itself. It came from actually constructing the list. The idea that people have goals and automatically chase after them like some kind of homing missile is plain wrong. The human mind is finite, its cognitive resources limited. Attention, like a flashlight beam, illuminates one subject only to darken another
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Philosophers have been worrying about distraction at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who saw it less as a matter of external interruptions and more as a question of character – a systematic inner failure to use one’s time on what one claimed to value the most. Their reason for treating distraction so seriously was straightforward, and i
... See more