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Articles
Recent Picks
I’ve written hundreds of articles (with no ads) to help to you manage your
time, attention, energy, and more. Here are a few of my favorite recent ones!
- The Resistance List
- 5 lessons I learned switching to a flip phone for a month
- What happens doesn’t matter all that much
- The productivity payoffs of a calm mind
Podcasts
Time & Attention Podcast
Becoming Better is a podcast dedicated to making you a better human being.
- Podcast: Tactics for meetings
- Podcast: The Value of Meetings
- Podcast: How We Time Block
- Podcast: The art of slow productivity
The Productivity Project
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 13 Languages
Hyperfocus
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 31 Languages
How to Calm Your Mind
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 31 Languages
Helpful Reading
Recent Articles
How to regain control of your inbox by responding to email in batches
Email is a beast that's hard to wrangle. Scheduling a few times throughout the day where you exclusively answer email (and nothing else) can help you regain control over your inbox.
The powerful saving principle that will let you retire decades earlier
There is a movement of people who are retiring decades sooner, mostly by living simpler. This article is about the powerful financial principle behind why they're able to retire so early.
Linchpin Book Review: Are you indispensable?
Linchpins make order out of chaos, connect the people around them, and best of all, make stuff happen. If you want to become indispensable to the people you work for, this book is for you.
Your to-do list’s sexy, secret lover: The ‘Waiting For’ list
If you find stuff slipping through the cracks and you want to reduce the stress that comes with juggling a million things at once, start a Waiting For list.
What McDonald’s can teach us about becoming more productive
McDonald's simultaneously focuses on becoming more efficient and leapfrogging their competition. It's not by fluke that the company is the world's largest burger joint.
Two months in, here’s how I’ve done!
My first month of this project has been crazy-exciting. Click through for new articles and site features coming in June, project stats, site stats, productivity experiment updates, and more!
The top 10 things I learned about productivity living in reclusion for 10 days
Over the last ten days I lived in complete reclusion to figure out the connection between people and productivity. Here is everything I learned.
10 Days of Reclusion: Final video update!
It is almost time to shed a tear for the passing of this 10 Days of Reclusion experiment (I'm free tomorrow at 5pm!), but thankfully, not before one last video.
Warning: Is artificial light shattering your productivity?
Believe it or not, the amount of natural and artificial light you're exposed to each day can have a huge effect on how productive you are. Here are four ways artificial light can affect you.
The Recap Newsletter
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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.
Keynote Speaking
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