The New Yorker
The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done
How personal productivity transformed work—and failed to.
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Across our curated articles on productivity, you'll find a range of guides, stories, and actionable tips on how to be productive, develop new habits, and get more done by doing less.
Hoanh An
Get started with 2-minute rule
Whenever you find it hard to get started on a task, consider scaling it down into a 2-minute version.
The idea is to make it …
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BBC
The benefits of note-taking by hand
Computers and phones have become the go-to note-taking method for many. But your brain benefits from an old-fashioned pen and …
Learning ProductivityOneZero
Now Is the Time to Bring Back Away Messages
Anything that makes it easier to disconnect and focus on work will help ensure that you’re able to accomplish tasks in …
ProductivityThe Conversation
Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?
A study by Harvard and New York University economists finds that people working from home spend around 48 minutes more time …
Productivity Remote WorkYouTube
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 …
Productivity VideoSuperorganizers
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 …
ProductivityEugene 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 …
ProductivityHarvard 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 …
ProductivityThe 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 …
Productivity Workdiesdas.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.
Productivity WorkThe 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 …
ProductivityBBC
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 …
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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 …
ProductivityRize Productivity Blog
Phones and Apps Reduce Your Ability to Focus Even When They Don't Distract You
The interesting takeaway from these studies is that physically distancing yourself from your phone decreases its cognitive …
ProductivityJulien Odent
Lean into procrastination
When you procrastinate, your brain is sending you a message. It’s telling you that it has already solved the problem, …
ProductivityThinking Through
Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
Swiss-cheese calendar causes a massive amount of context-switch between different work priorities. By the time one meeting …
ProductivityGiles Turnbull
How to be clear
You can spend a lot of time coming up with tactics and strategies for your communication, but the most valuable tool you can …
ProductivityThomas Hühn
The Now Habit
Procrastination is a mechanism to cope with the fear that is linked to the beginning or the end of a task. Nobody is …
ProductivityRecode
The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work
Job software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
ProductivityAmbition & Balance - by Doist
How Entrepreneur and Tech Diversity Advocate Tracy Chou Gets Things Done
In this productivity profile, Tracy walks us through her typical workday as a tart-up founder leading a distributed team. She …
Productivity Remote WorkForge
Why Don't We Know How to Protect Our Time?
The cognitive errors that make us waste our most valuable resource.
ProductivityForge
To Do Better Work, Change Your Environment
How to find your ideal space for focus, collaboration, or creativity.
Productivity WorkAlexey Guzey
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to …
ProductivityMEL Magazine
I Let a Stranger Watch Me Work for a Day — And I've Never Been More Productive
Focusmate is the internet’s most invasive productivity hack. I put it to the test.
ProductivityThe New York Times
Productivity Isnt About Time Management Its About Attention Management
“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.
ProductivityNature
Six easy ways to manage your time better
The amount and quality of what you achieve are crucially dependent on how effectively you manage your time. Andrew C. Johnson …
ProductivityThe New York Times
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
If procrastination isn’t about laziness, then what is it about?
ProductivityTED
Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting …
ProductivityFREE
The Secret to Getting More Done When You Are Your Own Boss
Staying focused and productive when there’s no one around to hold you accountable can mean the difference between …
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