Chris Kuhn (Oliver Burkeman-style 'Imperfectionist' newsletter archive) collects posts on productivity, focus, and handling to-do lists and personal ruts.
Commenters mention its 'it's worse than you think' essay on never finishing to-do lists and link it in threads on daily planning methods.
In my head I was thinking of a definition like the one below when I wrote that:
"Spam is irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients." - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7048231
When people sign up for Gophercises, the first two emails I send them are about the course asking how the course is going, if they had issues with the player, etc.
After that they get Go related emails. Eg https://ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9hvx32q Again, not really irrelevant given the interest in learning Go, and 99% of the people I talk to love those emails.
Maybe 3-4x per year I'll have a sale on my other paid courses. During those times people who have been on my mailing list for a set period of time (I think it is at least 10 days and have received at least 2 previous emails from me without unsubscribing, but I'd need to double check) will get a notice about the sale. I try to avoid being super annoying with those, so they will often contain useful lessons about coding with Go even if you aren't interested in the sale.
I make my living selling Go courses. I was only able to create and offer Gophercises as a free course because of this, so yes, I require an email address and I use Gophercises as a marketing tool. I try to make it a decent experience, but no matter what I do someone will always complain. I find my time is better spent helping the people who enjoy and appreciate what I am doing.
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I'm doing something similar with Obsidian daily notes[^1]. I also have a weekly note that I use to plan the next week.
Similar to how the author talks about scheduling their next day the evening before, I've started planning the big tasks for next on Friday afternoon, as this gives me momentum on Monday morning.
Related: I've found the 3/3/3 technique from Oliver Burkeman[^2] and the concept of open and closed lists to be a great complement for this type of organization. It hits the sweet-spot of flexibility and consistency for me.
[^1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Daily+notes
[^2]: https://ckarchive.com/b/e5uph7hx43mn
I decided to learn Swift in a week and build an app to solve a problem I've been having for ages.
Basically what the app does is save and close all your apps in one click (or keystroke), and reopen them all later. The idea is to be able to clean up your desktop before screen sharing / making a screen recording, or just saving your workspace to switch off from work and come back another time (even by scheduling apps to open automatically some time later).
I wrote about how I developed and designed the app over here if curious: https://ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9h4ron7
I mean you won't find the ultimate answer, but I found the writings of Oliver Burkeman on these kinds of topics interesting. He's a bit of an anti-productivity guru (aka recognizing that these are important issues, but being highly critical about the usual "read my book and everything will be fine" type of people).
See e.g. things like this:
https://www.oliverburkeman.com/onething
https://ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrzxwrd
The great news is you are still very young, you can fumble around for another two years trying to pick yourself up and will still only be thirty.
More practically, it’s simple, just not easy, take one step at a time and then have patience, as long as you are making progress you just need to keep going.
Worth reading:
https://www.oliverburkeman.com/freshstart
https://ckarchive.com/b/xmuph6hrzxwrd