Tag: todo

We often reassure ourselves by thinking that the to-do list is the cornerstone of personal organization. It gives us a sense of order, it lists the things to do, we check them off, it fills up again, as if the act of doing so guarantees progress. But at the end of the day, the conclusion is often the same: lots of activity but little progress. It's not a question of method, or even willpower, but rather a physical or even mathematical issue. When we try to do more work than...