Articles on Productivity
Articles on Productivity
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Productivity
You're a Computer Athlete
You're likely a professional computer user – you should behave like the athlete that you are
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Productivity
New Time Units for Higher Productivity
Our common measures of time never worked for me for time management. So I invented my own.
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Attention Design
Develop Strong Criteria for Input Triage
'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.
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Knowledge Ops
The Seven Questions At The Heart Of Knowledge Ops
Personal Knowledge Management is too restrictive – you want to think about all seven of these questions instead.
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Constraints
Sadly, Constraints Are Real
For the last 15 years I've ignored one fundamental truth: real constraints exist. Here's what I'm trying now.
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Productivity
How to improve a process
With taking notes as an example, let's talk about how to improve any process.
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Note-taking
Don't Fiddle With Your Note-Taking System
You should stick to one note-taking system and fiddle with it as little as possible. That's a myth.
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Productivity
You Actually Need to Context Switch
Common wisdom says that you need to avoid context switching. That's only half true – sometimes you need to context switch.
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Productivity
How to Context Switch Like a Pro
Context switching is unavoidable – but you can make it less costly by combining a couple of simple strategies.