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How To Write an Email
This is not about grammar. It is about speed, clarity, and judgment.
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on: 2026-07-09
Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy
AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.
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on: 2026-05-06
Becoming the person who does the thing | @fredrivett
Bad news: your internal identity dictates everything you do. Good news: you can change it
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on: 2025-09-12
How I build software quickly
Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
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on: 2025-07-14
A receipt printer cured my procrastination
Why can I focus for hours on a game but procrastinate on simple tasks? I finally cracked the code using thermal receipt printer and game design.
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on: 2025-06-12
Everything App for your teams
Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion.
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on: 2024-10-14
Why you need a "WTF Notebook"
There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."
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on: 2024-04-19
Use Your Potions and Scrolls
I find that when I play RPG games, I often hoard single-use items like potions and scrolls, saving them for some future critical moment. I finish games like Skyrim with a backpack full of unspent resources, reserved for a crisis that never actually arrives. What’s the point, then, of all these items?
Just like I save items in games, in real life I too am reluctant to ask for favors or promote my own projects. (Sometimes I even save all my favourite treats and I never eat the last one). I treated these social and professional resources as if they were single-use “magical items”, not to be wasted but reserved for some important-yet-undefined future magnum opus event.
Recently I played Baldur’s Gate 3 and I decided to try something new: I would actually gasp use my items as needed, as they were intended, without undue reservation. Not only was it actually fun to use my fireball scrolls and blow stuff up, but I also discovered new layers and hidden quests. For instance, using a ‘Speak with the Dead’ scroll on a certain suspicious corpse unveiled a questline I would have otherwise missed.
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on: 2024-04-17
Breaking Down Tasks
Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this post fills the gap, and explains in detail how I break down projects into a task list.
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on: 2024-03-12
One Minute Focus
Science backed method to leverage focusing visually for 1 minute to increase mental/cognitive focus
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on: 2024-02-07
Staring at a Wall: Embracing Deliberate Boredom
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on: 2023-10-28
How to Study More Effectively, No Matter What You’re Trying to Learn
The memorization hacks, note-taking skills, and mandatory brain breaks that will help you better retain information.
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on: 2023-10-26
The Ultimate Cafe Restaurant Background Noise Generator
Use Cafe Restaurant as a creativity booster, to add ambiance in a too-quiet space or mask distracting noises like workplace chatter or nearby conversations.
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on: 2023-06-27
How to Do the Thing You've Been Avoiding
What if there's no good reason to avoid it?
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on: 2023-06-22
Finish your projects
Starting a project can be full of excitement, hope, and blissful productivity. Finishing that last ten percent, however, can feel like too much. Here’s how to get past that and actually finish.
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on: 2023-06-14
How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul | Sim O.N.E. (Observati
Why tracking screen time doesn't matter and improving the relationship with your phone requires conscious decisions.
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on: 2023-05-30
The key to becoming extraordinary
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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on: 2023-05-02
Meet the people using Notion to plan their whole lives | MIT Technology Rev
The workplace tool’s appeal extends far beyond organizing work projects. Many users find it’s just as useful for managing their free time.
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on: 2023-04-27
Stretch 15
A free 15 min daily stretch routine to help desk workers avoid aches and pains
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on: 2023-04-20
Staying Organized | Tighten
Andrew Morgan (a Lead Programmer at Tighten) joins us this week to talk all things organization - why it's important for devs (and all of us, really) to stay organized, how he does it, and a lot...
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on: 2023-04-19
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?
AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
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on: 2023-03-26
Upbase Plans & Pricing - Free | Premium
Upbase - All-in-one project management tool with built-in daily planning
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on: 2022-11-13
A decade of dotfiles
Reflections on a decade of configuration files.
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on: 2022-05-30
WeekToDo | Free and Open Source Minimalist Weekly Planner and To Do list App
WeekToDo is a free and Open Source Minimalist Weekly Planner and To Do list App for simple and effective people. Schedule your tasks, set reminders and handle projects with To Do list and a calendar. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux or online.
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on: 2022-04-11
Recommendations for productivity tools/libraries? : r/PHP
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on: 2021-11-06
The Value-Effort Matrix: A framework for thinking about work - Human Who Codes
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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on: 2020-11-19
Getting Started with Dotfiles | Dries Vints
In this blog post I'll explain what dotfiles are, how you can use them and how to start with your own.
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on: 2020-11-09
How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model
B J Fogg is a Stanford professor who came up with a simple model of behavior that helps us understand why we take action or not take action at any given moment.
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on: 2020-08-11
Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
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on: 2020-02-12
Why Aiming for Perfection Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals
Read this article to learn why perfection isn't necessary for reaching your goals and what will help you find success instead.
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on: 2020-01-31
Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time | Hacker News
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on: 2020-01-23
3 tricks to start working despite not feeling like it
Ever wish you felt like creating that presentation? Felt like doing that research? Felt like doing the dishes?
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on: 2020-01-21
Strategies for Long Projects - Ben Brostoff
I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...
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on: 2019-09-30
Every productivity thought I've ever had, as concisely as possible - Alexey
See discussion on Hacker News (a) (610 points, 156 comments)
I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post.
If you’re unproductive right now
Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day:
Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to get angry at yourself
Set the alarm for the time you will be preparing to go to bed today
No, …
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on: 2019-08-19
Startup idea checklist
I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list.
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on: 2019-06-23
Guida Anti-Inculata per laureandi in Informatica e Ingegneria Informatica — Conjure Utopia
Più volte durante la vostra istruzione vi sarete imbattuti in guide, siti e materiale vario che vi hanno consigliato cosa studiare, come ...
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on: 2019-02-09
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It | Hacker News
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on: 2018-10-10
The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill | Hacker News
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on: 2018-05-27
Notes on keyboard only use of macOS – Rob Allen's DevNotes
An article by Rob Allen
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on: 2018-04-10
GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
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on: 2017-11-21
A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Things Done®
Getting things done is a task management system that helps you clarify what needs to be done, and when. Learn the GTD basics here.
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on: 2017-11-13
Evidence-based advice on how to be successful in any job - 80,000 Hours
Much advice on how to be successful is wrong, or useless cliches. Here we cover the best advice we've found in the last 10 years that's backed by evidence.
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on: 2017-04-26
8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year
Update (December 2016): Version 2 of this guide is now available! Announcement post here. Links in this post are updated to send you to the latest and greatest version. Click here to download 8,760 Hours v2 The end of a year […]
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on: 2016-12-25
Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his da
With $80 billion, Bill Gates is the world’s richest man.
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on: 2016-10-23
Come work with me on Intend
The Hacker Hall room. Work with other people online. You don't need to be lonely working from home.
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on: 2016-08-13
http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/time-management-multiple-authors.htm
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on: 2016-07-26
Screw motivation, what you need is discipline.
If you want to get anything done, there are two basic ways to get yourself to do it. The first, more popular and devastatingly wrong option is to try to motivate yourself. The second, somewhat unpo…
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on: 2015-01-31
How to learn efficiently – Daniel Lemire's blog
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on: 2014-12-30
Put the internet to work for you. - IFTTT
Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to automate your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. We...
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on: 2014-10-24