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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
One more reason to get better at managing your time, money, and energy
When you’re young you have little money, when you’re middle-aged you have little time, and when you’e old you have little energy.
The Snapchat Diet: How to lose weight with an otherwise pointless app
Snapchat isn't only good for sending sexy pictures of yourself to friends. It's also an awesome tool for losing weight!
Why accomplishing more won’t make you happier (and what to do about it!)
A wealth of research has shown that accomplishing more and becoming more productive doesn't make you any happier than you were before. Here what to do about it!
For the next three weeks I’m putting on my ‘productivity pants’
For the next three weeks I'm going to be dressing up, down, and sideways, and then measuring how what I wear affects my productivity.
Check It Out: AYOP featured on the official TED blog!
Today TED published an interview they conducted with me about my recent experiment to watch 70 hours of TED talks in 7 days.
Want to get more done? Take more breaks!
Over the last few weeks I've observed my productivity as I've either taken frequent breaks, or not taken any at all. Here's what I've learned!
Time hack: Create a ‘mindless’ list
Creating a list of the mindless things you do everyday and doing them at once will give you a huge productivity boost.
100 incredible things I learned watching 70 hours of TED talks last week
Last week I watched 296 TED talks; short, 18-minutes about Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Here are 100 incredible things I learned from that experiment!
The 7 characteristics of highly effective people who give TED talks
The other week I watched over 70 hours of TED talks. Here are the seven characteristics that the best presenters have in common.
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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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