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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.

The 1000 day rule. How do you work remotely and live the dream? How do you achieve location independence? The one thousand day rule will help you.

A dispatch from the middle of trying to figure out what I want to say

Daily Notes became a hallmark feature in Craft in short order. The quick and easy ability to create a note, specific to a calendar date, that could be linked and back-linked across your entire Craft database made the feature a perfect option for collecting digital paraphernalia.

Staying in touch with people is one of these asymmetric habits that require little effort, time and resources but has an unlimited upside.

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Christian Bager Bach Houmann - I'm a software engineering student from Denmark with a passion for learning, productivity, and problem-solving. Let's learn together.