Why your to-do list isn’t working (and how to fix it)

An easy habit we can steal from Da Vinci

Dear Rethinkers,

What does your ‘to-do’ list say about you? Most lists feel like a dull task-management system of endless items to cross off. How many days do you get through every single item, and besides, what do we do then? Start another one! We start each morning in what Oliver Burkeman calls a kind of ‘productivity debt’. The goal being to get to a …