Daily Gleanings about the need to miss out on some things in order engage most fully with what’s most important.
Tag Archives: Essentialism
Daily Gleanings: Knowledge Work (22 August 2019)
Daily Gleanings about the challenges inherent in knowledge work and ways of balancing productive work with healthy engagement in the rest of life.
Daily Gleanings (11 June 2019)
Michael Thomas discusses the importance of sleep for knowledge work through the lens of a couple key anecdotal narratives. Todoist has published a helpful introduction to “GTD practices and what [they] think is the most intuitive way to implement the[se practices] in Todoist.” The essay comments, in part, that “the key to GTD isn’t the […]
Daily Gleanings (30 April 2019)
In episode 173 of the Minimalists’ podcast, the Minimalists discuss digital clutter with Cal Newport based on his new book, Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Portfolio, 2019). The discussion focuses a good deal on the negative impact of social media on our ability to focus on the work and relationships […]
Daily Gleanings (17 April 2019)
From Greg McKeown via Twitter: “Sometimes what you don’t do is just as important as what you do.” The extent to which we allow our attention to be drawn off from where it really should be is the extent to which we also become less effective in that area. INTF has announced that a new […]
Are You Free to Focus? (Part 2: Stopping)
Last week, we began reviewing some of the highlights of Michael Hyatt’s new book Free to Focus. If you missed this introduction, be sure to go back to read it for the context it provides on what we’re discussing this week. Image supplied by Michael Hyatt and Company Hyatt divides his advice in Free to […]