Hey there 👋

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Becky Kane. For the past nine years, I’ve worked in marketing at Doist – the remote-first company behind Todoist and Twist. 

I’ve somehow managed to make a living from writing online, but I’ve never written anything just for myself. Until now. 

This (very occasional) personal newsletter will be a quieter corner of the internet to grapple with a lot of the same themes and ideas on how to work and live well that I’ve written about for years, but from a more personal perspective. If you want to keep grappling along with me, I’d be happy to have the company (and the accountability).

It’s a totally blank page for now (if the incredibly unimaginative newsletter name wasn’t already a clue 🙃), but here are some things I’ve written elsewhere:

On modern "knowledge" work: 

• How companies made productivity a personal problem
• You can’t just cancel 76,500 hours of meetings
• Our obsession with measuring worker productivity is actually killing it

On personal productivity: 

• I declare to-do list bankruptcy! (and you should too)
• 7 cognitive biases that make us suck at time management
• Why time management won’t solve your time problems

And that one time Fast Company published something I wrote which was pretty cool: 

• Can’t work towards your long-term goals? Blame your brain

How to connect with me: I’m in the midst of a long (possibly permanent?) break from Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the other socials. If you want to keep in touch, subscribe to the newsletter (it's free) and reply to my emails or comment on a post. 

If you have a minute to spare, send me something interesting you’ve read/watched/seen – online or off! 

I'm hoping that this newsletter becomes a way to connect with curious and thoughtful people over the things they find interesting/funny/noteworthy. Maybe it can be that space for you too!

See you soon, 

Becky