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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 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
Life without my best friend… I mean, my cellphone.
It's no surprise that walking around all day with a mini-computer attached to your hip rewires how you think. I've lived without my smartphone for the last two weeks, and this article is a summary of my thoughts so far.
Want to feel more productive? Lower your expectations.
This isn't a tactical tip, but it is a practical one. High expectations cause stress and unhappiness, and lowering your expectations will not only make you feel more calm and happy, but also more productive.
6 smartphone keyboard hacks that will make you type faster
If you're like me, you spend a ton of time typing on your smartphone's keyboard. Here are six quick smartphone keyboard tricks you should be taking advantage of!
High-leverage activity: Learn to touch type
If you're like me, you'll spend more than a year of your life typing nonstop. Learning to touch type is one of the highest leverage activities you can do.
So far, I’ve mostly failed at waking up at 5:30
So far my productivity experiments have gone swimmingly, with the exception of waking up at 5:30 every morning. Almost every morning, I struggle to get out of bed so early.
8 things I learned about productivity at a four-day oncology camp
For the last four days, I volunteered at a leadership development camp designed for teens who suffered from cancer and their siblings. Here are eight of the things I learned about productivity over the last four days.
Guide: Everything you need to start meditating
Meditating will make you more productive. It works out your "attention muscle" which helps you focus, calms you down, and ultimately, lets you get more done. This guide contains everything you need to start meditating.
3.5 simple email hacks that will save you days of time
Email is like rain - it's hard to control. Luckily, it's much easier to deal with the effects of it. Getting better at email will let you save your time and attention for bigger and better things. Here are 3.5 hacks that I love.
Time Hack: Start a maintenance day
The idea of a maintenance day is a simple and powerful one: take all of the maintenance-y stuff you do throughout the week and lump them together on one day. It turns out, the effects of doing this are profound.
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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.
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