Newsletter Archive
- #270 Exercises For Those Who Sit
- #269 The 10,000 Hour Rule is a Myth
- #268 The Top Productivity Hacks
- #267 The 6 Causes of Burnout
- #266 Context Switching Kills Productivity
- #265 Bring Back Private Offices
- #264 The 5-Minute To-Do List
- #263 The Case Against Caffeine
- #262 Sleeping Our Way to Being Productive
- #261 Good DevEx Increases Productivity
- #260 4 Types of Professional Time
- #259 How to Be a Better Planner
- #258 Overcome Your Fear of Deadlines
- #257 Task-Centric vs. Outcome-Centric
- #256 Effective Engineering Teams
- #255 Best Practices for Working Remotely
- #254 Lessons on Career Growth
- #253 How Work Kills 755k People a Year
- #252 How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide
- #251 Your Brain on Emoji
- #250 Is AI Enough to Increase Productivity?
- #249 Note-Taking Apps Don’t Make Us Smarter
- #248 Divide Your Life Into Semesters
- #247 Music to Boost Motivation
- #246 Proof You Can Do Hard Things
- #245 Retaining Technical Info
- #244 Motivation vs. Discipline
- #243 Boost Productivity with a Priority Matrix
- #242 You Need to Fail 16% of the Time
- #241 Managing Interruptions At Work
- #240 Use Your Body to Exercise Your Mind
- #239 A Personal Account on Burnout
- #238 Review of Paragon
- #237 J-Curves vs Stairs for Career Growth
- #236 Best Practices for Working Remotely
- #235 Using Notion AI
- #234 Organizing Your Digital Life
- #233 Generative AI for Productivity
- #232 Easy Ways to Keep Your Brain Young
- #231 Is Coffee Good for You?
- #230 Waking Up at 5am for Productivity
- #229 Finish Your Projects
- #228 Team Health Checks
- #227 Alternatives to Journaling
- #226 The Psychological Benefits of Commuting
- #225 How to Use Notion for Hybrid Work
- #224 Perfectionism Holding You Back?
- #223 Plain Text Accounting
- #222 How To Overcome Burnout
- #221 Journey Into Sleep
- #220 Confusion is a Symptom of Learning
- #219 Processed Foods Cause Cognitive Decline
- #218 The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
- #217 Night Owls vs. Early Birds
- #216 Psychological Paths of Least Resistance
- #215 Improving Memory
- #214 What We Look For in a Resume
- #213 YouTube Addiction
- #212 How Roadmaps Make Teams Powerless
- #211 Review of GoLinks
- #210 Why Backlogs are Harmful
- #209 I Hired 5 People to Sit Behind Me
- #208 Your Brain in Back-to-back Meetings
- #207 10 Best U.S. Places to Work
- #206 Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas
- #205 Zero to Marathon in Six Months
- #204 Review of Localazy
- #203 Writing By Hand to Retain Information
- #202 Life-Changing Micro Habits
- #201 Learning Through Trial-and-Error
- #200 Which 'Digital Hoarder' Are You?
- #199 Review of Manganum
- #198 The Case Against Collaboration
- #197 Microbreaks to Prevent Burnout
- #196 The Power of Single-tasking
- #195 The Autofocus Productivity System
- #194 2 Weeks Notice Checklist
- #193 Why Deadlines are Pointless
- #192 The No. 1 Resume Mistake
- #191 Why Long-term Plans Don't Work
- #190 The Hybrid Work & Meetings Guide
- #189 Your Attention Span is Being Robbed
- #188 What To Do About Cognitive Overload
- #187 How to Recover from Work Stress
- #186 The Bullet Journal Method
- #185 The Negatives of a Remote Job
- #184 Being Swamped is Normal and Not Impressive
- #183 Top 50 Productivity Hacks
- #182 4 Steps to Becoming Indistractable
- #181 Which Productivity System is Best
- #180 How to Break a Bad Habit
- #179 The Anti-Work Trend
- #178 Is Your Smartphone Ruining Your Memory?
- #177 Reusing Knowledge for Efficiency
- #176 Become a Speed Reader
- #175 Companies Fixing Developer Burnout
- #174 When Everything is Important
- #173 Using a Habit Tracking Journal
- #172 The State of Burnout in Tech
- #171 Flawed Engineering Productivity Metrics
- #170 Quitting a Job to Make Free Web Tools
- #169 Lessons From a Tech Job Search
- #168 Characteristics of an Ideal Workspace
- #167 Building Healthy Habits When You’re xhausted
- #166 How To Get the Most Out of Your One-to-ones
- #165 The 4-Day Week Is Flawed
- #164 It Doesn't Matter How Many Hours You Work
- #163 Your Work Is Not Your God
- #162 Spend 36 Minutes a Day on Email
- #161 How To Overcome Perfectionism
- #160 Write Plain Text Files
- #159 4 Things Organized People Do Daily
- #158 The Four Levels of Reading
- #157 Folders vs. Tags
- #156 How to Drink Caffeine With Strategy
- #155 Which Works Better: Habits or Projects?
- #154 How to Take Notes While Reading
- #153 Breaking a Day Into 5-Minute Slots
- #152 Why You Might Want to Talk to Your Dog
- #151 5 Signs It’s Time to Quit Your Job
- #150 Top Links of 2021
- #149 Day Tracking for Productivity
- #148 4-Day Work Week Results
- #147 The Case For Slacking Off At Work
- #146 Working Multiple Jobs
- #145 The Best Office Chairs
- #144 Designing Better File Organization
- #143 Stack Exchange for Productivity
- #142 How to Remember Anything
- #141 How Elon Works 120 Hours Per Week
- #140 Productivity vs Efficiency
- #139 Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work
- #138 Use Science to Focus at Work
- #137 Time Management Won’t Save You
- #136 How To Learn Stuff Quickly
- #135 Why Your To-Do List Never Ends
- #134 Recovering From Developer Burnout
- #133 Learning How to Unplug
- #132 Create a Culture With Fewer Meetings
- #131 Bobby Fischer on Playing the Wrong Move
- #130 Why I'm Unreachable
- #129 Open-plan Office Noise Increases Stress
- #128 From Office-Centric to Remote-First
- #127 Work from Home & Productivity
- #126 Efficiency is the Enemy
- #125 Setting a Schedule Decreases Productivity
- #124 A Guide for Beating Burnout
- #123 You Can't Compete with Someone Having Fun
- #122 Taking Short Breaks to Help the Brain
- #121 Multitasking Fuels Original Thinking
- #120 Overwork Killed 745,000+ in a Year
- #119 The 5-Hour Workday
- #118 The Cult of Overwork
- #117 How To Scale Back Meetings
- #116 Take Advantage of Low Quality Time
- #115 How To Truly 10x Your Productivity
- #114 Build Personal Moats
- #113 Tools and Resources for Remote Work
- #112 Is Social Media Hijacking Our Minds?
- #111 How I Bought a Business for $0
- #110 Should I Quit Video Games?
- #109 E-mail Is Making Us Miserable
- #108 Performing Under Pressure
- #107 How To Finish Your Hobby Project
- #106 How to Tell Your Boss You’re Burned Out
- #105 Naps Linked to Improved Cognitive Function
- #104 The Brains of Resilient People
- #103 We Are What We Remember
- #102 Unconventional Ways to Build Focus
- #101 How To Overcome Phone Addiction
- #100 Subtle Job Interview Red Flags
- #99 How I Manage Random Daily Notes
- #98 Be a Schedule Builder, Not To-do Maker
- #97 What Is Your Time Worth?
- #96 One-on-one with Your Manager
- #95 Time is Not a Measure Of Productivity
- #94 Memorize Faster With Spaced Repetition
- #93 Fight the Tyranny of the Urgent
- #92 Turning a Smartphone Into a Boring Tool
- #91 Start the Day with a Thought Download
- #90 Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts
- #89 How To Take Meeting Notes
- #88 Handwriting Engages the Brain
- #87 A CV of Failures
- #86 Career Burnout By Age 32
- #85 Cancelling Standups for Productivity
- #84 The Perfect Note-taking App
- #83 How Productivity is Measured
- #82 Does Team Chemistry Exist?
- #81 How I Got My Attention Back
- #80 How to Overcome Phone Addiction
- #79 How To Recover After Burnout
- #78 The Complete Guide to Mastery
- #77 Focus in the Age of Distraction
- #76 How To Finish Your Side Project
- #75 Results From Eating the Best Brain Foods
- #74 Two Things Killing Your Focus
- #73 Zettelkasten Notes
- #72 The Cobra Effect
- #71 The Truth About Productivity Apps
- #70 17 Minutes a Day on Email
- #69 Information Overload (1989)
- #68 WFH Manual
- #67 Tech Skills for Remote Developers
- #66 Developer Efficiency Tips
- #65 Randomness to Fight Procrastination
- #64 Collaborating Across Time Zones
- #63 Flow State
- #62 The Power of Spaced Repetition
- #61 Tools & Articles on Remote Work
- #60 The Fogg Behaviour Model for Procrastination
- #59 The Impact of Deactivating Facebook
- #58 Open-plan Offices Are Dumb
- #57 How To Thrive Working From Home
- #56 Caffeine Boosts Problem-Solving Ability
- #55 Productivity with a Single Text File
- #54 Revolutionize Your Note-taking
- #53 How To Become a Morning Person
- #52 Science-based Methods to Improve Memory
- #51 You Suck At Excel
- #50 Why We Never Have Enough Time
- #49 Work-life Boundary Erosion
- #48 The Power of Small Wins
- #47 What Top Engineers Do
- #46 Organizational Complexity as Bug Predictor
- #45 An Effortless Way to Improve Your Memory
- #44 An Alternative To-do List
- #43 Asynchronous Communication
- #42 Why Office Workers Can't Sleep
- #41 Stay-at-home-mom to Developer
- #40 Working From Home as a Software Engineer
- #39 The Five Hour Workday
- #38 The Speed Reading Fallacy
- #37 Sorry, We Can't Join Your Slack
- #36 Status Meetings are the Scourge
- #35 The Complete Guide to Deep Work
- #34 The Importance of Unlearning
- #33 Long Holidays vs. Short Holidays
- #32 Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
- #31 Two Computer Logins for Productivity
- #30 How To Avoid Burnout
- #29 Amateurs vs. Professionals
- #28 The Remote Work Report
- #27 The Best Office Chair for Home
- #26 The Best Office Chair for Home
- #25 Habits vs. Goals
- #24 What Stress Does to the Brain
- #23 Short Bursts of Exercise for Learning
- #22 Group Meetings vs. One-on-one
- #21 The Toyota Way
- #20 Staying Sane While Working Remotely
- #19 30 Years of Lessons in Software Development
- #18 Why Books Don't Work
- #17 How To Get Rick Without Getting Lucky
- #16 Salary Progression in Tech
- #15 A Decade of Remote Work
- #14 Turning a Google Interview into a Startup
- #13 The Two Pizza Rule for Productive Meetings
- #12 The Bullet Journal Paper Productivity System
- #11 Slack is Not Where Deep Work Happens
- #10 Google Remote Work Survey
- #9 Sustainable Software Development
- #8 How To Ask for a Raise
- #7 Managing Remote Teams
- #6 Technical Debt Is Like Tetris
- #5 Working 32 Hours Per Week
- #4 UI Redesigns are Mostly a Waste of Time
- #3 How to Convince Your Boss to Go Remote
- #2 How to Keep Your Full-time Job
- #1 Welcome to Tech Productivity