my week offline was wonderful. i didn’t touch the computer for nine days and didn’t set the alarm for most of them. everything important got done without the help of a todo list. the days gradually grew back to their true length, instead of disappearing down a black hole of unfinished tasks. i’m slashing my todo list today, deleting the oldest undone items on it. i need to keep spending more and larger chunks of time offline and relearning how to let small bad things happen and how few things are important.