Tagged: productivity
11 posts.
Graph Databases, RoamResearch, and PKM
How RoamResearch Uses New Database Technology To Bring Life To An 80 Year-old Idea In this short article, I explain the (very) basics of graph databases and use RoamResearch’s note-taking software as an example of an early and powerful mainstream application of this new technology.2020-11-25
The Power List
5 Non Negotiable Tasks That Move The Needle If you get all 5 done, no matter what else happens during the day, you can cross them off and write a big "W" on that piece of paper because you won the day.2020-08-14
Follow One Course Until Successful
Do You Follow Your Own Advice? I tried to do too many things today. So many books tell the same story. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are at dinner. They are asked what the single most important factor for their success was. Reportedly, they both said “focus.”2020-06-16
21 Rules For Getting Your Shit Together
It’s my 21st birthday — I wanted to write something After bombing a math test in my first month of college, I overreacted so dramatically that I developed an obsessive and vague drive to “get my shit together” that continues to this day.2020-05-29
Make Failure Suck
The Silver Bullet of Accountability Leverage external consequences to win internal battles.2020-04-11
The Torah and Deep Work
How Shabbat Subsumes Mainstream Self-Help and Productivity Advice Through Deep Work, the secular community is coming to terms with facts that have been known to the Jewish community for millennia.2020-04-11
The Power of Positive Constraints
Making one decision to simplify thousands of future decisions. Whenever I need to take something more seriously, I come up with a challenge to guide me into action.2020-04-11
Asymmetries, Batching, and Constraints
Productivity Lessons from the Four Hour Workweek Challenge basic assumptions you hold about what is possible, and learn rules and techniques to enable a lifestyle with abundance in time.2020-04-08
Rules for Distraction Free Work
Five Positive Habits for Consistently Overcoming Resistance Don’t let laziness limit your potential. Build a system, automate self-discipline, and execute. Let the results speak for themselves.2020-04-08
Take Control of Your Education
Five Books Every College Student Needs to Read In my first year of school, I read the following books. Without a doubt, I would not have achieved a fraction of my goals otherwise.2020-04-08
Who Is Cal Newport?
Why Am I Obsessed With His Work? Newport is an incredibly prolific academic, author, and blogger and he reached this level of professional success with stunning speed.2020-04-08