[Sari Botton, practical matters]: The power of curiosity + to-do list trickery Ep 1074

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Sari Botton is the author of And You May Find Yourself: Confessions of a Late-Blooming, Gen-X Weirdo and Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York. She's also the creator of Oldster, a Substack newsletter devoted to exploring the joys of getting older. (Her Oldster questionnaire was a direct inspiration for my starting this podcast.)

Sari was my first ever guest on Finding the Throughline--I'm replaying her episodes this week.

- The continuing ed class she took as a 20-something that lead to her personal writing career

- The thing her uncle told her when she was 10 that sparked a lifelong fascination with growing older

- Why she loves Substack—as both a writer and a reader

- The thing about trusting your instincts that Shalom Auslander first told her in 2010 that it took her 10+ years to believe

- The incredible power of writing annoying, non-work stuff down on your to-do list (even if you’re already done it)

- What she does to cheer herself up and clear her head

- Her morning routine (including what exactly goes in her mug)

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