Placeholder 03: The Overestimation Contagion

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I read a piece on the web the other day citing a now-famous passage attributed to Bill Gates. The passage got me thinking. But first it got me mad. Then, it got me thinking again.

This week, I'm thinking all about how much we accomplish whilst we are working to try and accomplish even more, and the gap that exists between those two points that makes us feel bad. Thankfully, Keep Productive host and app developer Francesco D'Alessio joins me to talk about his new app, Bento, which fits so handily into the way I'm thinking about using my own task system it makes my eyeballs hurt.

You can learn more about The Bento Method here. Give it a go, but only if you're on iOS for now. Everyone else, take a look at your own task systems and give it a think whether you can trim down the big rocks you're trying to lift every day to make them more digestible.

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