The dragon of inaction
Productivity.
Most productivity advice answers the question how do I do more? After thirty years of trying, code shipped, languages learned, the occasional black belt earned, I’ve come to think that’s usually the wrong question. The better one, given that I can’t do everything, is what should I do?, and that’s what these posts are about.
New essays
Lately.
Your Task List Is Making You Numb. Here’s What Fixed Mine.
Your Task List Is Making You Numb. Here’s What Fixed Mine.
The Character for Busy Is a Heart Perishing
The Character for Busy Is a Heart Perishing
Nobody Who Can Juggle Is Watching the Balls
Nobody Who Can Juggle Is Watching the Balls
Plain Text in the Age of AI
Plain Text in the Age of AI
The most-read guides
Where most readers start.
Getting Things Done
A guide to GTD
Twenty years of practice, condensed into the version I’d give a friend.
Getting Things Done
Start with the system.
Twenty years of working with David Allen’s system, and the small ways I’ve changed it.
Read the guide to GTDAll GTD posts
From the archive
The shelves.
Older and more practical: set-ups, methods and the odd experiment, kept because people still use them.
On paper
Time and attention
Monk mode
Pomodoro
Every topic