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Big things coming next week!
Next week I’m posting a short video about AYOP, and going out with a bang. Be excited :-)
My Final Productivity Experiment: Living Ultra-Productively for Two Weeks
For my final productivity experiment, I’m taking all of the incredible productivity lessons I’ve learned so far and living them all for two weeks.
The Productivity Experiment I Failed Miserably: Eating only “soylent” for a week
Soylent is a powdered food substitute that supplies your body with all of its daily nutritional needs. I ate it exclusively for a week as a productivity experiment–here's everything I learned.
The biggest productivity mistake people make
The biggest mistake people make when they try to be productive: they try to do more things, instead of the right things.
Power Nap iPhone App: The cure for waking up groggy after a nap
Power Nap will wake you up from your nap before you fall into a deep sleep (measuring your sleep phase through your iPhone’s accelerometer), so you don’t wake up groggy.
The simple secret to meditating (or doing anything) every day
To meditate (or do anything) every day, shrink the length of a session until you no longer feel a mental resistance to it.
Several email plugins that let you schedule sending email later
To manage people’s expectations (e.g. that you don’t work past 5pm, or respond to email after work hours), install a send-it-later plugin for your email client.
Here’s why you procrastinate, and 10 tactics that will help you stop
I recently interviewed Tim Pychyl, a world-renowned procrastination researcher, about why we procrastinate and what we can do to stop. Here’s why you procrastinate, and 10 tactics that will help you stop.
10 huge productivity lessons I learned working 90-hour weeks last month
Here are the 10 biggest productivity lessons I learned working 90-hour weeks in February!
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Time & Attention
Life’s a project—why not become better at it? Explore the latest episodes of my podcast Time & Attention below.
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