Atomic Essays published on CortexFutura

A quick How To guide for shaping your information diet

'How in the world. You need less Twitter in your life.' I had, again, discarded my guard rails of attention design and failed at input triage.

For the last 15 years I've ignored one fundamental truth: real constraints exist. Here's what I'm trying now.

With taking notes as an example, let's talk about how to improve any process.

You should stick to one note-taking system and fiddle with it as little as possible. That's a myth.

Common wisdom says that you need to avoid context switching. That's only half true – sometimes you need to context switch.