19: The To-Don't List

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Dima explores an idea of to-don't list for make room for new tasks and responsibilities and Slava challenges this entire concept and thinks of more productive alternatives.

• Brief follow up on networking: apps with geo-location features like Strava can help find people with similar interest in real life
• The Breakfast app
• Focused #175 The To-Don’t List
• Dima's definition of a to-don't list: list of things that should not get on a to-do list
• Why Everyone Should Have a To-Don't List, According to This Harvard Professor (and 8 Ideas on What to Add to Yours)
• I tried making a ‘to-don’t list’ instead of a to-do list. Here’s what I learned
• The state of flow
• Difficulties of expressing vague and deeply felt ideas

"It's not prioritization until it hurts"

• Pushing back on meeting requests and challenges of this process
• Slava's method: personal retrospective
• Finding an ally is a great first step towards any change, especially a big one
• How to start a movement by Derek Sivers

Next episode: book club discussion of The Decision Book.