Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket. “There’s no point beating yourself up for failing to clear a backlog (of unread books, undone tasks, unrealized dreams) that was always inherently unfeasible to clear in the first place.”
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Excellent Link btw : Oliver Burkeman is just so Zen, calm, unruffled, and pragmatic.
Just rabbit holed and read every blog post by him, short list, every post pithy and on point - might get his books and some of the books he recommends
Inspiring makes me wanna make a web-log ;-)
Thanks OG Jason K
Loooongtime reader, new subscriber , superfan *sqeeeeee* <3 what U do
Dude knows me.
If you like this post, you’ll love his book Meditations for Mortals. I read it once a year.
Good shout, and relevant to the recent to do list post!
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