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Your To-Do List Is Lying to You

The to-do list is the most trusted tool in personal productivity — and possibly the one most responsible for the gap between how busy people feel and how much they actually accomplish. The problem is not the list. The problem is what the list measures.

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Aaron Blake

May 8, 2026, 6:22 PM

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