“If we look at history, it always will speed up. So that’s why I think the skill of focus, being able to know how to focus when it's necessary, I think is a very, very valuable skill to have nowadays.”~ Oscar de Bos, co-author of a new book Focus On-Off
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Saturday, 7 March 2026
Focus
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The link has some good tips, and is consistent with some resolutions I’ve recently made. In particular start your day with a to-do list, not one that’s overly-rigid and inflexible, but enough to help keep you focused on the things that matter and bring purpose to your day. This alone helps minimise a tendency for random scrolling, because there’s something else your brain already knows it wants to do.. More generally I’ve resolved to slow down, observe more, don’t stress the things you can’t control (mostly other people), and deliberately de-optimise. Too much optimisation (aka over-perfectionism) leads to you sacrificing your energy for things that don’t matter much, at the expense of things that matter more.
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