Productivity

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Teaching Talk: Helping Students Who Procrastinate

On Nov. 13, 2012, Dr. Tim Pychyl led a discussion about academic procrastination and strategies for change. The focus was on …

Superorganizers

Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

It’s a process I’ve developed called surgical reading and it means that when I’m reading a non-fiction …

Eugene Yan

Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

Why do I say regular note-taking doesn’t work then?

Because the notes stay as separate notes. Ideas and knowledge …

Harvard Business Review

Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.

We’ve been taught that if we want more — money, achievement, vitality, joy, peace of mind — we need to do more, to add …

The Cadence Blog

Your daily standups should be async. Here's why

While the daily stand-up was created with good intentions, they’re more productive and better for the team when done …

diesdas.digital

Notion encourages busy-work and I'm tired of it

This post contains my observations on Notion, the no-code champion that’s eating up the productivity tool space.

The New York Times

Stop Trying to Be Productive

The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But …

BBC

Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time

Experts like Tim Pychyl at Carleton University in Canada and his collaborator Fuschia Sirois at the University of Sheffield …

deprocrastination

3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

Is it time to go “screw it, let’s do it”?

Could a deliberately sloppy start help you move forward?

Or …

Engineering Systems, Leadership, and Organizations

‘Got a sec?’ Is Killing Your Productivity

One of the most challenging aspects of leadership isn’t formulating strategy or organizational design. While these present …

Harvard Business Review

Let’s End Toxic Productivity

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” I’m embarrassed to admit that this is a line I used to repeat, whether to justify working until …

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

The rise in remote work since the pandemic and its impact on productivity

Remote work rose dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Total factor productivity growth over the 2019–22 period is …

The Sentinel-Intelligence

The Elite's War on Remote Work Has Nothing to Do with Productivity

Many of us have embraced remote work because it liberates us from distractions and unproductive meetings, often hailed as the …

The Guardian

The great divide: are office workers more productive than those at home?

Amazon has told staff they must return five days a week – but experts don’t all agree that flexible working cuts …

Nature

Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie — here's why you should adopt it, too

Do fewer things, work at a natural pace and obsess over quality, says computer scientist Cal Newport, in his latest …

CNBC

81% of young people say a 4-day workweek would boost productivity

A new national survey from CNBC/Generation Lab of 1,033 people aged 18 to 34 found that an overwhelming 81% of respondents …

Inc.

Are Teams More Productive When They Work Remotely or in the Office?

A New Study Says It’s a TieIt’s not about the right place to do work. It’s about getting the right people …

Phys.org

Suppressing boredom at work hurts future productivity, study shows

Boredom serves an important purpose—it signals the need to stop an action and find an alternative project. But boredom …

Deprocrastination

Stop postponing things by embracing the mess

Does your day get derailed frequently because of unexpected circumstances?

Do you always expect yourself to be more …

Reddit

How do you stay productive working as a digital nomad?

I’ve been wanting to be a digital nomad for a while and have an extremely flexible job that’s fully remote with …

Hacker News

How to be productive without making lists?

I guess a question I have for everyone is: How do you be productive without lists? Is there a certain way to approach them? …

Solving Procrastination

Perfectionism and Procrastination: How They're Connected and What to Do About It

The relationship between perfectionism and procrastination can have serious implications, so it’s important to …

Slack

The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

• Employees who log off at the end of the workday register 20% higher productivity scores than those who feel obligated to …

Bloomberg

Productivity Matters, But Not as a Political Football for Remote Work

A combination of technological and social changes at work have turbocharged the topic.

The Atlantic

Remote Work Has Made Americans More Productive

Telecommuting allows caregivers to manage a workload that is, if anything, way too big.