Curtis McHale on obligation
Curtis had a response to what I wrote earlier this week about reading later:
With reading later I think we often save things because we want to be the type of person that reads this article. It’s interesting enough in the moment, but not interesting enough to spend time with right now.
But if not now when?
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Okay, I can't actually just drop the mic and walk away, because I have to say how much this resonated with me. If not now, when?
My day job building the Torment Nexus is frantic and I ask myself that question so often that when I reach my personal life, the answer becomes "maybe never" more than I'd like. I find that I'm putting a lot of things in my life into the infinite inbox, which is a very uncomfortable thing to realize about oneself.
Time to think about what matters. Let your backlog reveal to your where your priorities lie.