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I'm turning 40 in 10 days and never in my life have I had a dairy or an a to-do list of some kind. I might scribble down a phone number once in a while on a piece of paper, but I think that's about it.

I pretty much live by the same philosophy, if I can't remember it, it probably wasn't important (to me). It might be that the "to me" is the key here. :)

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention, I run a pretty hectic web development business.

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>> I run a pretty hectic web development business.

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>>I'm turning 40 in 10 days and never in my life have I had a dairy or an a to-do list of some kind.

I really feel sad you underwent so much pain for no reason, while you could have easily avoided it.

The point is pain when experienced for a long term becomes normal and doesn't feel like pain anymore. Looks like that is what happened in your case.

Good for you! But some of us mere mortals who work for other people and have ADD sometimes need a little something to help keep us on track.

Oh. I'm just saying. Some people don't need or want a to-do list.

However, I fully agree, Jeff Atwood "giving advice" not to use a to-do list is stupid. It might work for him, doesn't mean it works for other people. My opinion would be that it would either come natural to use a to-do list or not.

I agree. If you can't remember, it's not a priority for you and that's okay. I operate the same way and have "hectic" schedules too.

It's probably not okay if that thing you don't remember is a priority for your customers and/or your boss.

> I agree. If you can't remember, it's not a priority for you and that's okay.

Tell that to airline pilots.

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