# Marc Andreessen - Guide to Personal Productivity (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Marc Andreessen]] **Full Title**:: Guide to Personal Productivity **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [pmarchive.com](https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_personal_productivity.html) **Host**:: [[pmarchive.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2021-01-30]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - Let's start with a bang: **don't keep a schedule**. - I mean: refuse to commit to meetings, appointments, or activities at any set time in any future day. - you can always **work on whatever is most important or most interesting**, at any time. - Keep three and only three lists: a Todo List, a Watch List, and a Later List. - Each night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that you will do the next day. - **use the back of the 3x5 card as your Anti-Todo List**. - you should never fight the tendency to procrastinate -- instead, you should use it to your advantage in order to get other things done. - While you're procrastinating, just do lots of other stuff instead.