Finish Essentialism

content/books.md

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 * Randall Munroe, How To
 * Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
 * William Ottens, Librarian Tales
+* Greg McKeown, Essentialism
 
 ## reading
 
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 * Thomas T. Barker, Writing Software Documentation
 * Sven Ove Hansson, Vincent F. Hendricks, Introduction to Formal Philosophy
-* Greg McKeown, Essentialism
 
 ## to read
 

content/refs/mckeown2014.md

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+title: Essentialism, Greg McKeown, 2014
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+* Society encourages us to say yes to everything, leading to burnout.
+* Working on too many things at once means we make barely any progress on any of
+  the things.
+* Essential things are important to us, not to others.
+* We can always make choices.
+* Not making a choice means there will be a default choice made for us.
+* Accepting every opportunity is learned helplessness;
+  we learnt that we cannot say no.
+* Essentialism is about embracing saying no, accepting to loose opportunities to
+  pick others up.
+* Playing and sleeping boosts creativity.
+* People almost always underestimate the time needed to complete a task
+  (planning fallacy).
+* Allocate more of each resource than what you estimate will be needed to avoid
+  the planning fallacy.
+* Removing and scaling down are effective methods to get things done.
+  Maybe less things, but better.
+* Aim for smaller goals to reduce the friction to get things done.
+* Start things as soon as possible, way before the deadline, even when doing a
+  very little amount of work as this can be effortless progress.
+* Make progress visible to make it more encouraging (e.g. checkboxes on a todo
+  list).
+* Use habit formation techniques to make small changes towards the ideas of
+  this book.
+* Focus on the present, on doing what is important right now instead of
+  thinking about past mistakes or worrying about the future.