🤔 What if you’re already on top of things?
What if you worked on the basis that you began each day at zero balance, so that everything you accomplished – every task you got done, every tiny thing you did to address the world’s troubles, or the needs of your household – put you ever further into the black? What if – and personally I find this thought almost unthinkable in is radicalism, but still, here goes – what if there’s nothing you ever have to do to earn your spot on the planet? What if everything you actually get around to doing, on any given day, is in some important sense surplus to minimum requirements?
Oliver Burkeman wonders about keeping a done list, rather than being stressed by a never ending to-do list. Interesting to read this alongside Clive Thompson’s piece of to-do applications.