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> However this was just an indignant HN comment against Jeff Atwood who committed the sin orders of magnitude worse by beaming out this nonsense to his tens of
by psweber 14y ago
> However this was just an indignant HN comment against Jeff Atwood who committed the sin orders of magnitude worse by beaming out this nonsense to his tens of thousands of readers.
I agree with your agreement, but it certainly would be an interesting experiment to try to train your brain to take back some of the responsibility you put on list. My memory is relatively weak, so I make lists of things I actually have to do, too.
- dasil003 14y agoI don't need to do that experiment because that's how I lived my life for the first 30 years! I only got into GTD because eventually my life did get complex enough that I did forget things and I did suffer mental anguish about personal failures as a result of not having a more robust system. The way I do things now is perfectly in proportion to my needs. I certainly don't read lifehacker or 57folders, and I am not addicted to productivity. I use OmniFocus about 20 mins a week, and I am a much happier person and definitely more productive on the deep engineering stuff because I don't have anything nagging at the back of my mind. Jeff telling me I should stop using todo lists is like an alcohol telling me to stop drinking. No, you should stop drinking, I should drink however much I like because I don't have a problem with it.