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A complete list of articles, books, poems, talks, films and online things mentioned in my book, I Didn’t Do The Thing Today.
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The Book of Life by The School of Life
The Marginalia (formerly Brainpickings)
The Red Hand Files newsletter by Nick Cave
The Nook newsletter
The Alipore Post newsletter
10 things newsletter by Austin Kleon
Ask Polly newsletter
The Imperfectionist newsletter by Oliver Burkeman newsletter
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Three theories for why you have no time by Derek Thompson
Navigating stuckness by Jonathan Harris
Your 10 year plan inspired by Debbie Millman
Are you a moderator or an abstainer? by Gretchen Rubin
John Malkovich has a secret for being insanely productive in GQ
The Work You Do, the Person You Are by Toni Morrison
COVID-19 is like running a marathon with no finish line by Alex Hutchinson
Taking control of your distraction mind by Adam Gazzaley
I talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age by Charlie Warzel
Your life in weeks by Tim Urban
In defense of the psychologically rich life by Scott Barry Kaufman
Become a time realist by Julie Morgenstern
Laugh, Kookaburra by David Sedaris
The rise and fall of getting things done by Cal Newport
The art of poetry with Thom Gunn in The Paris Review
The experiences of benign and malicious envy by Niels van de Ven
In praise of mediocrity by Tim Wu
Hugh Laurie sings the blues in TimeOut
The disease of being busy by Omid Safi
How millennials became the burnout generation by Anne Helen Peterson
Habit fields by Jack Cheng
Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes by Mike Powell
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My Dead Friends by Marie Howe
Days by Phillip Larkin
Rain by Raymond Carver
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
You Want a Social Life, with Friends by Kenneth Koch
The Way It Is by William Stafford
Small Kindnesses by Danusha Laméris
The Thing Is by Ellen Bass
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On Being with Krista Tippett
How to Fail with Elizabeth Day
Ctrl Alt Delete with Emma Gannon
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Talks by Tara Brach
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How to measure a life by Carrie Mae Weems
Toni Morrison’s commencement address at Wellesley
David Bowie’s advice to artists
Walk the earth… my 17-year vow of silence TED Talk by John Francis
David Carr’s commencement address at UC Berkeley
Pete Davis’s commencement address at Harvard
Tim Minchin’s commencement address at UWA
Neil Gaiman’s commencement address at The University of the Arts
David McCullough’s commencement address at Wellesley High School
The paradox of choice TED Talk by Barry Schwartz
The real reason we are tired and what to do about it TED Talk by Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith
Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal TED Talk by Lucy Cooke
Connected, But Alone? TED Talk by Sherry Turkle
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance TED Talk by Angela Duckworth
Assorted lectures by Alan Watts
Intensity v consistency by Simon Sinek
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Hi Stranger animated film
Princess Cyd film
Under the Tuscan Sun film
Synecdoche, New York film
Adaptation film
Animals film
Lady Bird film
The Social Dilemma documentary
Fleabag series
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland
Is The Moon Upside Down? by Greg Quicke
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond
The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay
What I Think About When I Think About Running by Haruki Murakami
Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krose Rosenthal
Anam Cara by John O’Donohue
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
Your Own Kind Of Girl by Clare Bowditch
This Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
This Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson
Flow by Milay Csikszentmihalyi
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
The Journal by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser Rowland and Adam Grubb
Upstream by Mary Oliver
The Artist’s Way by Julian Cameron
The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll
So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The Art Of Thought by Graham Wallas
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil
How Do We Know If We’re Doing It Right? By Pandora Sykes
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta
Every Time I Find the Meaning to Life They Go and Change It by Daniel Klein
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The Weekend Effect by Katrina Onstad
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