How to Close Out Your Work Day Like Cal Newport
Why you need a shutdown ritual to maintain work-life balance and maximize productivity
productive
Howtowalkandtalk
The Four Disciplines of Execution
Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
How to Get Into a Focused State Quickly - Scott H Young
Here's a simple question to ask yourself - any time you find yourself facing the impulse to give up and distract yourself.
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Things That Aren't Doing the Thing
Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.
Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.
Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing
the thing.
Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to do the thing isn't
doing the thing.
Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn't doing the thing.
Hating on other people who have done the thing isn't doing the
thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn't
doing the thing.
Fantasizing about all of the adoration you'll receive once you do
the thing isn't doing the thing.
Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading
about how other people did the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading
this essay isn't doing the thing.
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.
The dumbest and best productivity trick
And why I’m rebelling against it anyway
The 15 People Who Most Influenced My Thinking About Learning (Part I) - Scott H Young
Here are the people who have most greatly influenced my thoughts on learning.
Knuth versus Email
On Tire Pressure and Productivity - Cal Newport
The other day the low tire pressure indicator came on in my car. I didn’t see an obvious flat, so the likely explanation was some ... Read more
The Power of Habits: What The Ancients Knew About Making Good Ones & Breaking Bad Ones
Arete—the most powerful word to the Stoics. It means excellence, and it was the ultimate expression of human greatness—moral, physical, spiritual. It’s what the Stoics were chasing. It’s what we’re all chasing. Reaching it requires a certain philosophical approach. Because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough. Summing up Aristotle’s thoughts on excellence, Will […]
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“How I fixed my smartphone addiction:
I have 2 phones - Cocaine Phone & Kale Phone
Here's how it works:
1. The Smartphone Paradox - Your phone is a gateway to the world's best knowledge -- and the world's best distractions.
It's like having the best teachers, strip clubs, and…”
Efficiency is the Enemy
If you ever find yourself stressed, overwhelmed, sinking into stasis despite wanting to change, or frustrated when you can’t respond to new opportunities, you need more slack in your life. Here’s how slack works and why you need more of it.
Plain Text Journaling
a static site {for, by, about} me
Notes Against Note-Taking Systems
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Customize Your AirPods Pro for Even Better Sound
Earlier today, I posted a Quick Link to the 2nd-generation AirPods Pro on Amazon because they were $50 off, a good deal for an ite
A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup
Burnout is the result of chronic stress and, at work, that stress tends accumulate around your experiences of workload, values, reward, control, fairness, and community. If any are lacking or out of sync, you may be headed toward exhaustion, cynicism, and the feeling of being ineffective. When taken regularly, this short assessment can help you gauge whether you’re on the path to burnout, and where you should focus your attention to make beneficial changes.
How Long Does it Take to Become Proficient in a Language?
Find out how long it takes to become proficient in different languages based on the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview Ratings. Learn more!
Deliberate practice(psychological review)
The Right Now List
Some percentage of you are your own boss, or work from home, or otherwise have a dangerous level of flexibility around when you actually get to work. Some of you also know you're especially prone to procrastination, even on a good day. If you’re both of these things, you know how deadly the combination can be. Severe procrastination isn’t just
Short URLs: why and how | Derek Sivers
Inside my studio
A tour of my work space + a new virtual private space for us to converse and connect
Chores
They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while they might be essential, they may not be important. At least, not important enough for …
The Imperfectionist: How to forget what you read
First, a quick reminder about Designing Your System for Creativity, a live online event in two two-hour sessions that I'll be offering over one weekend in March. We'll exp...
The Imperfectionist: Don't invite your thoughts to tea
Don't invite your thoughts to tea In the return of an occasional series, here are four ideas I've recently found useful/enlightening, and which I didn't want to ignore jus...
Guillermo del Toro’s Inspiration Machine - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
When the Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro was a boy growing up in Guadalajara, his mother bought him a Victorian-style writing desk. "I kept my comic books in the drawers, my books and horror action figures on the shelves, and my writing and drawing stuff on the desk," Del Toro recalled in a 2016
Seeing Beauty in Basic To-Do Lists – Carl Barenbrug
A product designer and creative director at Minimalissimo and 099
Permission to Slow Down
In... Out...
Antifragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (without Chasing Shiny Objects)
If you “have optionality,” you don’t have much need for what is commonly called intelligence, knowledge, insight, skills, and these complicated things that take place in our brain cells. For you don’t have to be right that often. All you need is the wisdom to not do unintelligent things to hurt yourself (some acts of omission) and recognize favorable outcomes when they occur.
On Quiet Quitting - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
In my latest essay for The New Yorker, published earlier this week, I tackled the topic of "quiet quitting." This idea careened into mainstream discourse last summer, powered by a viral TikTok video posted by a twentysomething engineer named Zaid Khan. Here's the transcript: "I recently heard about this idea of quiet quitting where, you're