Hey friend,

As summer slowly winds down (technically we still have 19 days), I'm wondering: What was the song of the summer? I'm going to go with Ojitos Lindos. Also, my friend Tiago Forte just launched his Building a Second Brain membership (not an affiliate), check it out!

A simple flowchart let go of worry

Every morning, as I sit down at my desk I ask myself a simple question:

Nope, I'm not running a clandestine trafficking organization.

Nor am I side-stepping my moral code.

But I am looking for ways to make my own little dent in the universe - while working less than 30 hours a week.

One cheat code has been David Allen's 2002 classic Getting Things Done: The art of Stress-Free Productivity.

I picked up the book in 2002 as a bushy-tailed and bright-eyed college graduate.

And 21 years later, I still use the GTD method.

Every. Single. Day.

It's rare that you get to interview your heroes. Join David Allen and I on September 12th as he teaches you how to apply his time-tested strategies to improve your life.

In honor of the upcoming David Allen interview, we summarized the core GTD workflow so that you can start using it today.

Here are this week's top reads:

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Why you keep doing productivity systems that don't work

2 minutes | Superorganizers
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What’s your Productivity White Whale? You know, the silver bullet that promises to bring instant order and joy into your life. For RadReader Dan Shipper, it’s the sweet nectar of Inbox Zero. Yet he can never get there, since his “willpower always fails him.” So instead of beating himself up, he turns to a question: What do I need to let go of in this situation? We’re huge fans of the Superorganizers newsletter and highly recommend you subscribe.

→ Read the post​

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The uphill battle women still face in high finance

10 minutes | Noahpinion
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I've worked in two industries (finance and tech) where women are severely under-represented and I’ve had a front row seat to many of the transgressions and structural failings described in this post. Benn Eifert, a hedge fund manager, covers harassment (still shockingly common), double standards, exclusion from networks and role segregation. I encourage men read the entire piece to see how they can support equality as both individual contributors and as top-level decision-makers.

→ Read the post​

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The way we talk about millennials versus gen Z is wrong

13 minutes | The Cut
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As a Gen X’er, I’m sitting on the sidelines of the Millennial (avocado toast) vs. Gen Z (TikTok) generational battle. With banal language like “periodt” or saying someone “slays,” is Gen Z really displacing Millennial culture? Or simply continuing the cultural appropriation from one white suburban culture of teens to the next?

→ Read the article​

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A simple diagram to determine "do we really need a meeting?"

1 minute | NOBL Academy
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When every meeting is a virtual one, it becomes too easy to schedule unnecessary meetings. A few helpful questions to ask yourself before scheduling a meeting: Do you need outside input to make progress? Does this require a real-time conversation? Are there many moving parts or outcomes? (Here at RadReads, we’re Team Async.)

→ See the diagram​

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Why you should learn to market stuff (including yourself)

3 minutes | The Woke Salaryman
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So many people confuse “selling” with “selling out” — associating marketers as people who are desperately trying to convince us to buy something using psychological tricks ("Only 4 left at this price!"). At its core though, marketing is just understanding a problem and then persuading people that you’ve got a solution. And if you’ve got a good solution to a problem, then in many ways, you’re doing those around you a disservice by not screaming your idea from the rooftops.

→ Read the post​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Is quiet quitting a real thing? (RadReads, 1,203 clicks)
• ​100 rules to live by (Dru Riley, 697 clicks)

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And finally, is "quiet quitting" just a new way of saying coasting?

With gratitude,

Khe

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