Productivity

Notes

• Moving/batching all meetings to one day can be helpful. Or no meetings/calls on Thu/Fri as example.
• Have a different room for work that’s separate from bedroom and living area. Take walks to break up the day. Turn everything off at 6, and don’t check messages till next day.
• Manage priorities rather than time.

Resources

• Maker’s schedule

  • maker’s need larger units of time (half a day or so), meetings can blow their whole afternoon by breaking their flow.

• Productivity by Sam Altman

  Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic. A small productivity gain, compounded over 50 years, is worth a lot. So it’s worth figuring out how to optimize productivity. If you get 10% more done and 1% better every day compared to someone else, the compounded difference is massive.

  • What you work on
  • Three key pillars: “Make sure to get the important shit done”, “Don’t waste time on stupid shit”, and “make a lot of lists”.

• Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

• Alexey Guzey on productivity

• My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

• [Find the root cause of your productivity problem with the “5 Whys” technique](Find the root cause of your productivity problem with the “5 Whys” technique)

  • define the problem
  • ask why… 5 times (i.e. get to the root cause)
  • address root cause
  • tackle secondary factors

• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday - another point for habits, by setting a simple rule of writing at least one line of code every day Kishore Nallan was able to build a search engine over the course of 6 years

• Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind), 3 steps:

  1. develop meta-awareness of your state of mind.
  2. pattern-match to identify your mind’s most common modes.
  3. learn to pick activities that match each mode.

• Procrastinatory Doom Loops

• Managing Yourself

• Why do you waste so much time on the internet.

• The Fallacy of Splitting Time - each project has overhead (unproductive time) + there’s the context switching leading towards less productivity when working on multiple projects.

• On the unreasonable effectiveness of streak tracking

• How to Organize Your Entire Life with the PARA Method

• How to Do the Thing You’ve Been Avoiding #productivity #procrastination

• Smart Guy Productivity Pitfalls #productivity

Books

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity #productivity #book
• How To Live On 24 Hours A Day #productivity #book