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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
4 Ways to Surf the Internet Mindfully
Second only to Narnia, the Internet is the most magical, make-believe place in the world. And because it's so magical, it's incredibly easy to get lost in it; jumping around from one distraction to the next - from pictures of food, to cute kittens, to cute girls on...
The Two Minute Rule
However you manage your schedule, it's easy to get caught in the trap of adding absolutely everything to it because, man, that feeling of crossing something off of it just feels so good. The two minute rule will save you from that trap.
13 things to do ‘because it’s Thursday’
This blog is about becoming more productive, but too much productivity can add rigidity to your life. Being a bit more impulsive can help you push back against that rigidity.
Get Unstuck: How to manage your time with the Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique is a dead-simple time management technique that breaks your time down into easy-to-manage chunks. It helps you focus, get more done (in less time), and become much more productive. What's not to love?
A one-minute gift to yourself
Stop. Just stop, right now. I have a gift to share with you. It's not a unique gift, or one that you haven't received before - it's called 'this moment'. Corny, right? Keep reading. Right now, are you bouncing around between status updates, website links, and other...
5 reasons meditation will make you more productive
I personally believe that meditation is as important as sleep, exercise, and healthy eating, and that it is a habit that everyone should integrate into their life. There have been a ton of scientific studies done that have shown that meditation has a wide range of...
How the ‘jobs-to-be-done’ theory will change how you think about your life
In Clayton Christensen's book, How Will You Measure Your Life, he talks about his jobs-to-be-done theory. The theory states that when a consumer (me or you) buys a product, they buy it to perform a particular job.
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