The Most Important Question

Essay: How to get sh*t done


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Pulled in a million directions? Wondering what the hell you do with your days?

Find your north stars (and become devastatingly effective) with one simple question.

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  • News Roundup

    Health & Medicine

    • Are we getting closer to curing Alzheimer’s?

    • 5th person confirmed cured of HIV

    • After a brutal winter, an RSV vaccine might finally be around the corner

    • Social media has been a major cause of mental illness in girls for a long time. Here’s the evidence.

    • Climate

      • How disinformation is slowing the clean energy rollout

      • Global corps climate pledges are ‘misleading’, not the word I would have used

      • Biden wants all of the floating offshore wind

      • Why the hell has climate change made tampons more expensive?

      • Governments spent a record $1 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies last year

      • Food & Water

        • One year later, the infant formula crisis is still a thing, and could happen again

        • Cereal companies are NOT pumped about the FDA’s new “healthy” label

        • Congress killed a bill to give farmworkers a path to citizenship

        • Healthier school lunches may reduce obesity

        • Beep Boop

          • Why haven’t digital therapeutics got payer coverage yet?

          • How Google’s ad business funds misinformation (I wrote a deep dive into disinformation last week)

          • COVID

            • That meta-study on masks is decidedly not as decisive (or honest) as expected

            • What happens with COVID-era food benefits end?

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