A Time-Management Tool That Fights Pandemic Brain Fog

Start planning how to close the ‘open loops’ on your to-do list

James Surowiecki
Forge
Published in
5 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Of all the self-help books I’ve ever read, the one that’s stuck with me the most — and the one that feels the most newly urgent in this strange time we live in — is David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It’s a book that’s useful for thinking about work and creativity and…

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James Surowiecki
Forge
Writer for

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.