Productivity Experiments

For ten days straight I'm living in complete isolation and not talking to anyone. Here is a video for Day Two.

For the next ten days I'm shutting myself off from the outside world and living in total reclusion to see how living without any social interaction affects my productivity.

Last month I wrote 21,843 words of juicy stuff for the project. Click through for a sexy graph of exactly how many words I wrote.

It's no surprise that walking around all day with a mini-computer attached to your hip rewires how you think. I've lived without my smartphone for the last two weeks, and this article is a summary of my thoughts so far.

So far my productivity experiments have gone swimmingly, with the exception of waking up at 5:30 every morning. Almost every morning, I struggle to get out of bed so early.

Not your typical attention-grabbing, tip-filled post, but I think it's worth your time! This is a story about a man I met at the bus stop today, and the conversation we had about his retirement, classical music, books, sports, and a lot more. A good weekend read.

My goal isn't only to write about productivity over the next year - it's to live it. So I'm not just going to post quick hacks that I've found useful, I'm going to dive right into productivity and use myself as a guinea pig to see what works and what doesn't. Here are six productivity experiments I'll be conducting.