Productivity

Your attention is all you have. Wasting it is annihilating. Blackbird Spyplane saves literacy in a monumental Year-End Essay.

The key is simply — full days out in the world over thin days with the algorithm

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sameness is not dull; repetition is not unimaginative

Quickly convert the number of words in a talk, presentation, or speech to how many minutes it will take to read.

I’m finding that each long project is different and teaches me new things about myself and how I can do my best work.

I over-indexed on the “make it to the end” motto, which meant pushing past a lot of my own instincts. I wrote a lot but lost the joy of writing.

How to Know When to Bail

A small but growing number of people are giving up the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

CBC Founder, Anna Davis, shares her tips for people who want to write but struggle to find the time to get down to it.

I was initially pretty captivated by Notion. Its flexible platform for note-taking, project management, and database creation seemed to…

In a recent interview for the BBC podcast Spark & Fire, the novelist Ann Patchett discusses some of the difficulties that come along with finding success as a writer. "It used to be a novel lived very nicely in my head as a constant companion," she explains. "As time goes on and I now have

Motivation doesn't work like most people think it does. Here are some tips on how to get motivated without waiting for inspiration to strike.

On overcoming procrastination and paralysis, and making it part of your identity that you take opportunity

How do you cope with grief induced writer’s block? Academic writer Hilary Potter describes the processes she went through recently.

​ ​ ​ How to get out of a rut It strikes me that a lot of advice on how to get things done is borderline useless, at least for me personally, because I'm so rarely in the right ...

I have a friend, a woman, who lives out west, who has been working on a project for a long time, years and years.  She is a craftsman, an artist, and she is extremely focused on getting things right. The project is long overdue but she continues to push past the deadline, obsessively trying to perfect it. I admire her talent and commitment so much.

From The Third Something newsletter - how James Clear's idea of systems has made me a productive artist

It can be difficult to find time for your writing, especially if you're trying to fit writing around a full-time job. Here are some tips.

With NaNoWriMo fast approaching, you’ll be thinking, how on EARTH do I do this for thirty days straight? I’m going to give you some practical tips for motivation. Some will work. Some won’t. Find what works for you.

Productivity master Kevan Lee of Buffer shares some creative solutions for managing your time.

This guide explains what procrastination is, how it works, and how to stop procrastinating. Now for your first test: Don't procrastinate, and read this now.

Busy doesn’t always equal productivity; often, it’s the opposite…

I understand the need to accept assignments and say yes to every opportunity. The need, though, rarely arises because the assignments and opportunities are good. Rather, it develops from a desire f…

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do now, especially if you’re holding back in the hope of doing it properly

When I used these strategies, I finally took back my life

Time to get back to work

Having trouble getting the most meaningful things in your life done? Team up with a trusted partner who will punish you if you don’t meet a weekly goal.

There are so many things you’d rather be doing than what you ought to be doing and what happens is that you delay doing what you ought. All the evidence shows that this procrastination is bad…