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The amazing connection between food and productivity
Takeaway: Your diet affects how much energy you have, which influences your productivity. As I found during my experiment to lower my body fat percentage to 10%, eating for energy is simple in theory, but difficult in practice. The best way I've...
My dream is to wash dishes for a living
Takeaway: While we may get paid big bucks to do knowledge work, knowledge work often doesn't offer us as much structure, challenge, or feedback as jobs that are more hands-on, which can make it less motivating. Luckily, it's possible to hack your...
My book, The Productivity Project, is now available for preorder!!
I've been excited (and anxiously waiting) to post about this for the last year or so. I'm incredibly excited to announce today that my book, The Productivity Project, is available for preorder. And oh boy, I think you're going to like...
My favorite ways to stay productive when traveling
Takeaway: My eight favorite ways to stay productive while traveling: anticipating productivity obstacles ahead of time and planning ahead; keeping a template packing list that I use for each trip; not ordering takeout; drinking alcohol and caffeine...
Donald Trump’s run for president can actually teach us a lot about productivity
Takeaway: According to psychologist and author Shawn Achor, "noise" has four characteristics: it's unusable, untimely, hypothetical, and distracting from your goals. It's worth making an effort to consume less noise, so you can spend more of your...
What you can learn about productivity from a meditation retreat
Takeaway: I just got back from an eight-day silent meditation retreat. A few powerful lessons I learned from it: your attention is one of the rarest commodities you have; slowing down can actually help you accomplish more; the more intentions you...
Three simple, printable signs to make you more productive [PDFs]
Your smartphone, the internet, and technology in general can be huge productivity sucks. They're all essential, of course—it goes without saying that it'd be tough to get a lot of work done without all...
5 huge lessons I learned binge-watching Netflix for a month
For the entire month of July, I watched at least eight hours of TV shows, movies, and documentaries on Netflix every second day—including on weekends.
A few curious observations and updates from my binge-watching experiment
Takeaway: So far for my Netflix experiment, I've watched 64 hours of shows over fifteen days. I've also come to realize a few things: the average person watches a ton of TV, doing nothing can be incredibly exhausting, positive and negative habits...
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