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Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar
Swiss-cheese calendar causes a massive amount of context-switch between different work priorities. By the time one meeting …
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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.
Giles 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 …
Freelance ProductivityHabit Engineering
Four years ago on new years eve, I set out to build for myself a robust habit of habit engineering. Looking back, doing this …
ProductivityfreeCodeCamp
Procrastination Sucks — So Here's The "Eat That Frog" Way to Powerful Productivity
Spend your most valuable time on your most valuable activities and you’ll change the trajectory of your life.
ProductivitySam Altman
Productivity
A small productivity gain, compounded over 50 years, is worth a lot. So it’s worth figuring out how to optimize …
ProductivityThe Guardian
Is the secret of productivity really just doing what you enjoy?
By far the biggest predictor of whether something gets done is whether it’s fun to do.
ProductivityACM Queue
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
Many people turn to procrastination or ignoring the task—but that only postpones the inevitable. You can try to talk your way …
ProductivityThe Economist
The annoying habits of highly effective people
Perhaps the aim of admiring biographies and articles is to prompt their readers to emulate the work ethic of such leaders. …
ProductivityNick Wignall
Productive Procrastination: How to Get More Done by Procrastinating on Purpose
By procrastinating about the right things in the right way, you’re never really procrastinating. If you’d like to …
ProductivityThe Cut
9 Writers on the Most Outrageous Ways They've Procrastinated
Look, we all know it: writing — literally just the act of sitting down and starting to write — is physically impossible. Even …
ProductivityHacker News
What do you do when you suddenly feel like not working anymore?
It’s Saturday morning. You start coding in your side-project. A couple of hours go by. You feel like, “I’m …
ProductivityDaniel Gross
The Psychology of Dread Tasks
There are things you want to do. There are things you need to do. Sometimes these are the same. This post is how to handle …
Life ProductivityRaptitude
Want More Time? Get Rid of The Easiest Way to Spend It
For the month of May I time-traveled back to 2007, when social media platforms were still just websites you visited. I …
Life ProductivityThe Cut
I Joined a Procrastination Support Group and It Changed My Life
In my experience, at least, procrastination has always been a private pain, experienced solo — but as I bonded with my fellow …
ProductivityFatherly
Why is Answering Email So Stressful?
The average professional spends 4 hours per day responding to work emails. That’s both insane and understandable.
Productivity WorkThe Startup
Don't listen to those productivity gurus: why waking up at 6am won't make you successful
So, whether you’re laser-focused at 7 a.m. or hitting high gear as the sun sets, it’s worth taking the time to …
ProductivityInc.
A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home
The jury was out on the productivity effect of working from home. It has returned with a surprising verdict.
Productivity Remote WorkRescueTime Blog
The true cost of email and IM
You only have 1 hour and 12 minutes of uninterrupted productive time a day.
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