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Ep. 214: Quiet Quitting

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Do You Have a Back Burner List?

In his book, getting things done, david allan recommends keeping a sumeday maybe list. So it's projects that you're not actually actively working on now, but might one day. You need place or places where potential ideas are captured and trust they will not be forgotten. i have roll specific trello boards where i keep track of tasks and related obligations. Each of those boards has a column labelled back burner. That's one place that certain things go. But these tend to be the things i put on a back burner list. Don't tend to be grandiose ideas. It's more, you know, we need to some day probably update our such and such softwear.

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