Productivity & Self Organization

The New Yorker
Why Do We Work Too Much?5 min read · Aug 30th · In the modern office, stress has become a default metric for judging whether we are busy enough.
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we can’t redirect the future of work until we can control it in the present.
Parkinson’s Law,” and it opens with a famous pronouncement: “It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
The problem with the stress heuristic is that it doesn’t start reducing your workload until you already have too much to do
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The Big Project Syndrom6 min read · Aug 10th · Big-bet projects can deplete companies of resources, innovation, trust, and good people. Here's how to attack them with a lean/agile approach.
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Smart and creative people tire of constantly chasing someone else’s big ideas. One can get truly excited about only so many must-have projects (that eventually turn out
Detecting opportunities and threats and setting goals to validate and address them, is really where leadership plays a critical role.
strategy is never about chasing particular big ideas, but about the opportunities and threats the company chooses to address.
Zapier
If you’ve got 15 minutes, here are 6 more productive ways to spend time on your phone4 min read · Sep 25th · We don’t need to hide our phones during a break. We just need mobile break options that improve our state of mind—not bring us down.
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ListenNotes is a great podcast search engine, and you can filter for podcast length on its free version
You already have playlists for everything else. Create a few short ones to play during a break, depending on what you need that break to do—there’s a wide body of research on the positive impact music has on our brains, so if you can match the music to the mood, you’re good to go
Instead, pre-select specific hashtags or accounts that bring you joy or relax you. The Dodo (@dodo) and the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (@SheldrickTrust) have happy animal videos. Highly recommend.
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I just don’t want to be busy anymore1 min read · Sep 27th · I work in tech, I’m a parent, and I’m struggling with burnout.
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The Magic Of Momentum: What Goes Up Slowly Comes Down Fast3 min read · Sep 15th · Most things in life that are worth it are difficult to achieve. Building a business, forming new habits, etc. These all take momentum.
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90% of all startups fail. 96% of all small businesses fail within 10 years. 94% of smokers who want to quit fail. 92% of people quit their new year’s resolutions.
Let’s take a closer look at failure rates. According to the Small Business Administration, 33% of businesses fail during their first two years.
In a study by Rolland LeBrasseur and colleagues, that examined the relationship between growth momentum; I found something interesting.
Harvard Business Review
Let’s Redefine “Productivity” for the Hybrid Era7 min read · Sep 9th · It’s time to expand the definition to include well-being, social connection, and collaboration
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The boundary between work and home has never been a clear line
Fast forward to March 4, 2020Hundreds of researchers from Microsoft, LinkedIn, and GitHub came together to form the largest research initiative in Microsoft’s history, now called the “New Future of Work.” Together, while figuring out how to work from home and struggling with childcare ourselves, we’ve conducted more than 50 research projects on remote work.
A New Definition of Productivityresearchers use two key types of data to approximate it: 1) self-reported worker data, or asking people if they feel productive, and 2) worker activity data, or counting the number of emails sent or lines of code written.
Harvard Business Review
The Power of Small Wins20+ min read · From 2016 · Want to truly engage your workers? Help them see their own progress.
Inc.
Why Successful People Take 10 Years to 'Succeed Overnight'6 min read · From 2017 · There's a reason why this 10-years-to-overnight-success pattern shows up over and over. And it's not just about working hard.
Eric Barker
4 Things The Most Organized People Do Every Day10 min read · Sep 20th · *** Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. *** In 1930, famed economist…
80,000 Hours
This is your most important decision~18 min read · Sep 3rd · You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years. This makes your choice of career the most important ethical decision of your life. From adulthood,…
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As individuals, our role should be to find the biggest gaps in the priorities served by the current economic and political system, and do our best to fill them.
Some problems are much bigger than others.  At the same time, some problems are much more neglected by society.
While many young people want to have a big impact right away, research finds that most people reach their peak output at age 40–60.5
TIME
Why Silicon Valley's Optimization Mindset Sets Us Up for Failure6 min read · Sep 10th
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That mindset is inculcated early in the training of technologists. When developing an algorithm, computer science courses often define the goal as providing an optimal solution to a computationally-specified problem.
And the choice of which values to favor, and which to sacrifice, are made by the optimizers who then impose those values on the rest of us when their creations reach great scale.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
The Economist’s 1843 magazine
The perfectionism trap~14 min read · Aug 11th · Society bombards us with instructions to be happier, fitter and richer. Why have we become so dissatisfied with being ordinary? | 1843 magazine
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How The Iceberg Model of Systems Thinking Can Help You Solve Problems?~11 min read · Sep 7th · How should we solve a problem? Generally, what we most commonly do, is to react based on what’s visible. For example, if we eat too much food, and we do not exercise, we will gain weight. The solution…
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How James Clear is Writing His Next Book~11 min read · Sep 10th · Asana, Google Docs, and Meeting Readers Where they Are
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Different people write for different reasons, but in my personal opinion, the only reason that you would put ideas into book format is because you want to reach people.
You can, and should, still write about what you want to write about. But the idea is to learn to frame what you want to write about in a way that people will be interested in.
Positioning is starting where the reader is, and bringing them to where you want them to go
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How to Get Your Brain to FocusFrom 2019 · The latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracte...
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Life management: a holistic approach to make the most of your life3 min read · Aug 20th · Your life is not a list. Rather than managing each aspect of your life separately, life management integrates all the moving parts of your life.
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Lifelong learning and the willingness to explore, make mistakes, and adapt are all essential skills to make the most of your life.
Personal goals. Instead of creating multiple to-do lists, consider your life as a whole.
hedonistic (focusing on pleasures and neglecting the past and the future) or fatalistic (enduring the present with resignation)
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