This weekend, I was catching up with a friend who mentioned they’ve been swamped at work. It’s starting to have a negative impact on their life more broadly, which they don’t like. They work in a high-visibility, very demanding role at a well-known company. I shared that I’m refreshing my own productivity system and had just reread Getting Things Done and Building a Second Brain.

I told them about the books and offered to share what I’d relearned if they wanted the help. They accepted. I was thinking about this today, and I believe it will be a mutually beneficial arrangement. It reminded me of starting this blog because of an accountability challenge with my buddy Ethan. There’s something about doing something new with other people that requires new habits. Knowing that you have to regularly report to someone else who’s going through the same thing forces you to step up your game.

I don’t think I’ve been involved in an accountability challenge, or anything similar, since I started this blog in March 2020. The more I think about it, the more I’m looking forward to it, and think it’ll be fun and competitive (in a nerdy kind of way).

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