How to Be Good at Life
Ben Meer shares how simple systems—from weekly planning and the 3-3-3 method to better energy management—can reduce friction, make good choices easier, and help…
General Productivity
Articles tagged General Productivity from the archive—sorted newest first.
The more you use AI, the more you’ll be replaced by it
The more guidance we give to AI as we have it do our work for us, the more we are really training our eventual…
My next experiment: Analog afternoons. Care to join?
For the next month I’m going analog every afternoon. Help me draw the line between analog and digital.
The real reason I quit caffeine
Two months before becoming a dad, I quit caffeine for a month. I was not prepared for what happened.
There is no such thing as an automation
Automations aren’t permanent—they’re systems that work until they break, which eventually they all do. Weigh how likely each automation is to fail and what…
Everything with AI is an optimization equation
Every AI task is really an optimization problem. Here’s the one habit that gets you dramatically better results.
The 5 parts of a useful AI system
The five building blocks of a useful AI system—and how to use each one intentionally.
AI Time Management System
I wrote this article to be a prompt that you can paste into your AI agent of choice so you can set up this…
My new podcast! Intentional AI
I'm starting a new podcast, with my good friend David Sparks, on using AI to become more productive! It's called Intentional AI, and it's…
My take on Apple’s AI announcements: The good and the bad
Apple had a bunch of AI-related announcements today and so I wanted to get a newsletter out to share what I’m most excited to…