No.
For one thing, I don’t agree with all of it – I’m an advocate of not spending time prioritising things, just get on with them – but then it also claims to be the history of the To Do list. We may never really get a history of that. But this is the closest I’ve ever seen and it is stuffed with both stories it didn’t know and links out to more interesting articles.
This is a three-biscuit kind of article:
http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-origin-of-the-to-do-list-and-how-to-design-one-that-works
That’s on The Buffer and I saw it first on Lifehacker