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More fluid reflections on keeping a solid center.

See discussion on Hacker News (a) (610 points, 156 comments) I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. If you’re unproductive right now Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day: Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to get angry at yourself Set the alarm for the time you will be preparing to go to bed today No, …

It takes the sender 15 seconds to write. Yet it takes you 15 minutes to respond. Why tasks don't belong in your email.

Looking at how to make writing easier to read

Not new. But always worth another listen. Thank you Ethan Hawke.

Do Epic Shit is a book full of epic shits attempted (and survived) by Ankur Warikoo. And this article lists my favourite quotes from it.

“The KING of YouTube: Mr. Beast. Over the last 12 months, he's gained over 50,000,000 subscribers. So I binge watched 100 hours of his videos to study how he's done it so quickly. And here's his 3-part framework for rapid growth (that you can use on any platform): https://t.co/6mbvI0QBBm”

Unofficial API to send to Workflowy. Contribute to cjlm/send-to-workflowy development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Time management systems have failed us. What's the secret to being organized and getting more done? Here's what really works...

The knowledge of a carpenter is in his hands. The apprentice must work with his own to discover it. Here is some terrible advice: “If you can't explain it to a 6-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.”

It’s been almost 20 years since my diagnosis, and I’ve learned quite a bit.

Our lives are full of decisions, and bad ones can lead to regret. New Scientist helps you make up your mind

In markets and life

A reader recently sent me a video of a keynote speech, delivered in 2020 by the popular fantasy novelist Brandon Sanderson. The title of the presentation was "The Common Lies Writers Tell You," but its real message was more general. Sanderson starts (perhaps channeling a young Cal Newport) by pushing back on our common instinct

I’ve been working on side projects for my entire career. Inspired by Indie Hackers, and people like Daniel Vasallo, I wanted to get more than one income...

A daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals by Jonathan Stark.

Summary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe. In particular, I conclude that it’s plausible that at least acute sleep deprivation is not only not …

Why and how to use Adobe Spark Video

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.” — Yousuf Karsh

This is a short story about how I went from zero to $9.2k sales on a side project. I had no audience and paid nothing in advertising.

Photo: CyboRoz I was stressed out… over dog cartoons. It was 9:47pm at Barnes and Noble on a recent Saturday night, and I had 13 minutes to find a suitable exchange for “The New Yorker Dog Cartoons…

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Ikea Effect is the overvaluation of products that are built by users when they have put some effort into it.

David shares a compilation of the best links from his newsletter Friday Finds. Read here.