Lists and to read piles are rivers

In the same way you should Have-a-morning-menu-instead-of-a-to-do-list and you should think-of-your-notes-as-a-river you should also treat lists and to read piles as rivers. They shouldn’t be an obligation, a slog to get through. Instead they are something you Dip into, grab what takes your fancy. They flow past you.

This is from meditations-for-mortals-oliver-burkeman-2024