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Articles
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 that haven’t stuck for us
- Podcast: Productivity Guilt
- Podcast: Our favorite travel hacks
- Unpacking busyness
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
Why nobody cares (and what makes that amazing)
People care a lot less about your house, car, job, and clothes than you think. And knowing that fact will change your game.
Challenge: Break one rule today
It's hard to name a wildly productive or successful person who plays by the rules. As one rule breaker put it recently, "If you do follow things in a formulaic manner, you will at best wind up being the same as everybody else".
Introducing a brand new stats page, now with a daily work log and wakeup times
I just updated the stats page with completely redesigned graphs. And I'm now logging the work I do each day, as well as posting my wakeup times!
5 places I’ve failed with A Year of Productivity recently
Over the last couple of weeks I have failed at a number of things I set out to do with this project. This post lists what those are, and exactly why I failed.
The 2 things every productive (and successful) person does, every day
In my opinion, productive people (and successful people) do these two things every day that other people don't.
Tomorrow I graduate University. Yeahhhhhh!!!! (No posts tomorrow.)
Tomorrow I have my University convocation ceremony and reception. The final day of a long, long five-year journey that has been a ton of fun. I'm taking tomorrow off, so there won't be any posts.
My interview with the world’s most productive musician, Ernie Halter
Ernie Halter has a massive following (including 500,000 fans on twitter), but he still has time to write over 100 songs every year and personally respond to every email he gets. I recently talked with him about how he stays so productive.
Two questions to ask yourself about how hard you work
Hard work is pretty underrated. Here are two questions to ask yourself about how hard you and the people around you are working that I pulled from the book Mindset.
The 3 things Tim Cook focuses on every day
In a recent interview, Tim Cook talked about the benefits of focusing on a few, simple things. He also talked about what he focuses on every day.
The Recap Newsletter
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Time & Attention
Life’s a project—why not become better at it? Explore the latest episodes of my podcast Time & Attention below.
Keynote Speaking
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