While I don’t publish anything on this website if I don’t think you’ll find it valuable, these are the articles I think you’ll find especially helpful! I update this page as I post articles I think you’ll enjoy.
Productivity Experiments
- Meditating for 35 hours in a week
- Making myself bored for a month
- Living like a caveman
- Using my smartphone for 60 minutes a day
- Watching 70 hours of TED talks in a week
- Gaining 15 pounds of muscle
- Binge-watching Netflix
- Living in isolation for 10 days
- Drinking only water for a month
- Working 90-hour weeks
- Becoming a total slob for a week
- Taking a three-hour afternoon siesta
- What you should wear to become as productive as possible
Guides
- Guide: Everything you need to start meditating
- Guide: Everything you need to make and keep your New Year’s resolutions
- 100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
Productivity
- The top 10 lessons I learned from A Year of Productivity
- 10 tactics to stop procrastinating
- The number of hours you should work a week to be the most productive: 35
- 4 huge costs of becoming more productive
Manage Your Time
- Find your most productive tasks
- The Rule of 3
- Use the Pomodoro Technique
- Take more breaks!
- The optimal number of hours to work to be the most productive: 35
- Define your “hotspots”
- Find the best times of day to do everything
- How to slow down time
- Think about the costs of doing stuff
- For every $18.12 you save, you buy back an entire day of your life (+ calculator)
Get More Energy
- 10 ways to stay productive when you just don’t feel like it
- How food makes you more productive
- 5 simple habits that lead to more happiness
- Understand “flow,” and how to achieve it
- Develop a ‘growth mindset’
- 9 stress relief strategies that actually work
- Get more energy out of caffeine
- Think waking up earlier will make you more productive? Think again
Focus Deeper
- Tame distractions
- Do one thing at a time
- Become an active listener
- Run more focused meetings
- Do an “information detox”
- Give your days a theme
- Buy a distractions device
- 9 brain foods that will boost your ability to focus
