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  1. Oh joy, someone finally invented a game where the goal is to *not* accomplish anything! 🙃 It's like a reverse Wordle, because clearly what the world really needed was a complex and thrilling "Don't Guess the Word" challenge. 😜 Just when you thought Wordle couldn't get more riveting, Don't Wordle swoops in to save the day by making you feel even more accomplished for doing absolutely nothing! 🎉
    dontwordle.com/ #ReverseWordle #GamingFun #Accomplishment #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

  2. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

       It is not possible to lay down an inflexible rule as to when compromise is right and when wrong; when it is a sign of the highest statesmanship to temporize, and when it is merely a proof of weakness. Now and then one can stand uncompromisingly for a naked principle and force people up to it. This is always the attractive course; but in certain great crises it may be a very wrong course. Compromise, in the proper sense, merely means agreement; in the proper sense opportunism should merely mean doing the best possible with actual conditions as they exist.
       A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong, just as the opportunist who saves himself for the moment by adopting a policy which is fraught with future disaster is all wrong; but no less wrong is the attitude of those who will not come to an agreement through which, or will not follow the course by which, it is alone possible to accomplish practical results for good.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
    Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

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  3. Interesting Wired piece by @clivethompson on getting things done and why we don't always. I used to keep a to-do list and I stopped. I used to use Workflowy and Remember the Milk for lists (both okay). But now, my email inbox is my to-do list for essential things. I'll write a tiny, brief to-do list on paper if there's a couple things I need to remember or do that day, but that's it. I don't keep a running one anymore. I don't find it useful.

    archive.ph/ZpqBr

    #GettingThingsDone #GTD #ToDo #ToDoLists #accomplishment #motivation #procrastination #psychology #apps #shame #stress #productivity