Procrastination is not laziness. It is a useful signal from the brain that something about the task, the mood, or the setting needs…

No hurry, no pause. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Article: Tim Ferriss on X From Tim Ferriss: I routinely write “No hurry, no pause…

Two things to do when feeling stuck: Challenge assumptions or gather more data. Thought In my experience, the least helpful thing to do when…

Happiness from work you love should be measured in weeks, even though you'd prefer immediate pleasure this second. It should also be cool…

Three YC office hours questions to drive progress: What's holding you back from moving faster? What are your goals for the next two weeks…

One way to tell whether you're wasting time when exploring your passion is to ask if you're producing or consuming. Article: How to Do Great…

In the workplace, avoid the agreeable takers and embrace the disagreeable givers. Someone hard to work with is better than someone selfish…

Pain is not the unit for effort. If it hurts, maybe we are doing it wrong. Article: Pain is not the unit of Effort There seems to be a…

How to make achievable and meaningful New Year's resolutions? Five Questions, Wheel of Life, and Ideal Week methods. Video: How to Make 202…

The reward for good work is more work. Therefore, find the work you will enjoy spending more time doing rather than focusing on reducing the…

"The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding." Quote In case you need some maybe-cliche-but-useful motivation.

Personal rules turn desired behaviors into default behaviors. They are set during our best moments to avoid making poor decisions under…

Cognitive Tunneling: When our brains abruptly shift from a relaxed state to high alert, we tend to focus too much on the most obvious…

Need for Cognitive Closure: How much do you prefer getting a clear and definitive answer to questions versus remaining uncertain or…

Great scientists work with their door open. Though keeping the door closed enhances short-term productivity, an open door invites…

Write with the door closed. Once ideas are formed independently, rewrite with the door open to gather feedback. Book: On Writing: A Memoir…

Why do the top 10 companies change every decade, but the top 10 schools remain unchanged? Podcast: Mark Zuckerberg interviews Patrick…

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. Book: The Creative Act This quote from the…

Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. The more time we allot for a work, the more time it will take…

Don't only look down. As an individual contributor in an organization, one should spend 20 percent of the time looking up and looking around…

Regarding sharing creative work, the word "release" carries a double meaning. It signifies that the work is made available to the public and…

To raise our energy and get more things done, do energy audits to find out what makes us energized or drained. Double down on energizing one…

Write 5x more but write 5x less. Article: Write 5x more but write 5x less Mike Crittenden says there are two things he has come to believe…

Farnam Street's Annual Report Framework. Article: Personal annual report It might be too late to talk about new year's resolutions, but it's…

Stop every day right after we feel like we can write more. Save the excitement and carry it over to the next day to let momentum kick off…

Delta 4 Framework for evaluating product: If your product outscores the existing solution by more than 4 in efficiency score on a scale of…

How to say no? Prioritize and communicate. Podcast: Persuasive communication and managing up | Wes Kao (Maven, Seth Godin, Section4) Saying…

Set out time to write regardless of how you feel that day. It doesn't matter if it's good or not. Sit down and type. Refuse to bargain with…

Productivity is often a distraction. Don't aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Rather aim for better tasks…

Maker's schedule vs Manager's schedule: Understand the productivity style the people you work with are operating on. Article: Maker's…

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours." - Amos Tversky…

To get over perfectionism to write and publish more, try writing without capitalization and using the 10-Point Scale. Articles: why i'm…

"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." - Herbert Simon Quote Herbert Simon is the receiver of the Nobel Prize in…

The way to lose a fortune is through bad investment, not through excessive expenditure. Similarly, the way to lose time is by doing fake…

When it comes to idea generation, quantity is the most predictable path to quality. Book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World In…

You don’t get burnt out from working hundred hours a week. You get burnt out from things that don’t work out. Thought This is originally…

It’s not an apology if it comes with an excuse. It is not a compliment if it comes with a request. Article: 99 Additional Bits of…

If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep. Article: 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice

The No Phone On Bed Rule. Thought Just want to share that one of the best decisions I made this year is that I decided to not use my phone…

People get burnout not from working hard but from things not working. Momentum is really energizing. The lack of momentum is super draining…

Best ideas emerge when we balance the inhale of beer mode with the exhale of coffee mode. On any given day, coffee mode lets us be more…

Focus on "just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information. Book: The 4-Hour Workweek The author Tim Ferriss adopted a low…

"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they…

When drafting, write FBR: Fast, Bad, Wrong. Podcast: Safi Bahcall — On Thinking Big, Curing Cancer, and Transforming Industries | The Tim…

The longer you think about a task without doing it, the less fun it becomes to do. Article: Improvisational Productivity This is from Daniel…

Forget goals. Build system. Book: Atomic Habits Spending "too much" time on goal setting has some disadvantages: First, achieving goals only…

There are only three ways for humans to change: 1. change the time allocation; 2. change the place of residence; 3. change the people with…

Thinking of time in 15-minute chunks Cliché Thinking of time in 15-minute chunks instead of 1-hour chunks. It’s a cliché for everyone who…