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 …
ProductivityBBC
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 …
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The 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 …
ProductivityNational Geographic
The science of why you have great ideas in the shower
It has nothing to do with getting clean—and everything to do with your state of mind.
ProductivityBloomberg
Zoom, Teams, Slack Are Wreaking Havoc on Employee Productivity
Shifting between multiple apps to get stuff done drains workers’ time, efficiency and engagement. Can anything be done? …
ProductivitySébastien Dubois
Why take and make notes
In this article, I’ll share some ideas about why note-taking and note-making can change your life for the better …
ProductivityFast Company
Tracking remote workers doesn't make them more productive. Here's what it does instead
In a new survey from Owl Labs, 45% of employees said they were stressed out about being tracked by their employers.
Productivity Remote WorkStudy Hacks Blog
Your Work Matters. Build Your Schedule Accordingly.
This example is important because it underscores a psychological reality of productivity that can be lost among all the …
ProductivityThe New York Times
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score
Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is …
ProductivityTwist
The productivity tax you pay for context switching
How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus.
ProductivityPaperform
Are You Suffering from Toxic Productivity?
Hear the word “productivity” and you’re bound to associate it with positivity. After all, it means …
Productivityzanlog
why do you waste so much time on the internet.
sometimes i wonder why do i waste so much of time on internet, not even doing productive work. Just refreshing yt feed and …
ProductivityHacker News
Has remote work made you procrastinate more?
Over the last two years, I have been working remotely, and I am finding myself stuck in the same place and unable to …
Productivity Remote WorkArne Bahlo
You're using email wrong
You probably don’t like email, not a lot of people do. That’s because you’re using it wrong.
ProductivityThe New Yorker
It's Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level. A natural fear …
ProductivityHarvard Business Review
Collaboration Overload Is Sinking Productivity
Our Connected Commons research over the past decade on collaborative overload shows that more efficient collaborators — those …
ProductivityZapier
Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
Wondering whether you’re a fraud? That probably means you’re not.
ProductivityAlexey Guzey
Co-working
I no longer believe that it’s possible to achieve extremely high productivity sustained over long periods of time …
Productivity WorkRize 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 …
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