Declaring ‘To-Do List Bankruptcy’

Sometimes you gotta burn it all down and start fresh

Clive Thompson
Forge
Published in
7 min readMar 12, 2022

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“Fire”, by Vladimir Pustovit

Last week I had to take drastic measures in my organizational life.

I declared “to-do bankruptcy”.

I took my mammoth to-do list — a huge teetering pile of undone tasks — and burned it to the ground.

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Clive Thompson
Forge
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I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net