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I recently read The Focal Point and The One Thing. While these are tangentially related to productivity porn, they finally allowed me to let go of optimizing my work methods and focus on the one or two important things every day/week/month/year/lifetime.

Stress levels: plummeting.

Output (& happiness) much, much higher, far more than 10x before

Optimized work methods: I now print out a very short to-do list for each business I work in. A literal printout from Notepad or Apple Notes.

"Productivity": trending towards zero



Have these books on my list. I feel you would recommend them?


10/10, yes.




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