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I've stopped trying to remember things to consume. So no lists. To echo others here, read it now, or if you forget about it, it wasn't worth reading probably.

Where I think it's important to flip this is "keep track of all the things you want to produce" instead. All the article ideas, product ideas.

I keep a list now of hundreds of things I want to write or vlog about. I'm constantly surprised by how many good ideas I forget because I forgot to write them down. "What was that great anecdote I wanted to share?"

And it's this insanely important list now. When I'm in the inevitable i-couldnt-be-creative-to-save-my-life state, there's this giant list of things I came up with when I was in a much more creative mood.

Saving a list of all those threads has been the only way I could have kept up making a new video every single day for so many stretches. It's maximized my creativity.



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