8 Simple steps to manage your attention, motivation, and productivity when working remotely

You don’t need to learn any other thing about productivity. I promise. Identify your Most Important Task(s) for that day. Have maximum of 2, that require at most 6 hours of deep work. Do those first. Two reasons: 1) Everything else will seem so easy after that and 2) Even if you failed to do…

Useful app and Keyboard shortcuts (Weaving Workflow for Knowledge Workers)

Google Mail – When you need to search something but don’t want to get distracted by your inbox: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/{keyword to search for} Google forms – /viewform to fill in – /viewanalytics to see responses – /edit Google sheet – /copy – /export?format=[one_of_the_option_below] possible formats: xlsx|csv|tsv|pdf|zip|ods Google docs – Go to https://docs.new to create a new…

Create More, Consume Better

https://fs.blog/2013/07/understanding-our-need-for-novelty-and-change/ Our ability to respond to the new and different is part of what makes us human. We’re interested in creating more of whatever is outside of that status quo. Generally, this interest serves us well. In an evolutionary context it has likely saved us from extinction several times. At this point in our warp-speed…

Be a better human, not a better computer.

I think AI being so good they can do the production-line type of work for us is a GOOD thing. It frees us up to be human instead of training ourselves to be better at things that computers are good at: storage, retrieval, sequencing, logic, rule-based inference. What makes human, human? How can we be…

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