To Boost Your Output, Add a Constraint
"Limits are an artist's best friend." —Frank Lloyd Wright In his book, "A Whack on the Side of the Head", author and creativity expert...
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Leverage in the Overlooked
Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman is one of the greatest rebounders in the history of professional basketball. In the documentary, The Last...
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a renowned nineteenth-century German philosopher. Essays and Aphorisms is a collection of his thoughts on a wide...
Contextual Focus Blocks
A simple way to move more effectively through your to-do list. Of all the factors driving your productivity, task switching—the ability...
Aim for Discomfort
You feel perpetually behind. Teammates waiting on you for answers. Appointments jamming your calendar like a game of Tetris. That big...
Zero Acceleration
"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force, but through persistence." —Ovid, Roman poet We crave acceleration. We like the idea...
Seeking Order. Embracing Uncertainty.
For centuries, we have sought to understand what the world around us is made of. The ancient Greeks postulated a simple set of four...
Effort Inversion
A better way to look at the relationship between effort and results. Greater effort equals greater results, right? We've been told this...
The real secret to getting organized—get comfortable being uncomfortable
I believe anything can be learned; organization is no exception. It is a skill that can be practiced and mastered like any other. But it sha
The 3-Block Time Management Framework
The Three-Block Framework Above is a messy first sketch of a new system I'm experimenting with. The idea is to try and reduce the angst I...
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