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Issue #254  (Lessons on Career Growth) 12/25/23

Tools & Apps

PenX — An open-source, structured, local-first note-taking app and personal database with end-to-end encryption, GitHub-based version control, available as a web app or Chrome extension.

Papermark — An open-source DocSend alternative to share pitch decks, sales proposals, and other documents securely with real-time analytics and white-labeling options.

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Brainsounds — A small collection of sounds to play as background during focused work sessions, with categories including ambient, white nose, nature, and zen.

Sejda — A suite of 30+ PDF tools for editing, compressing, merging, splitting, signing, converting, and more, available on web or as a native desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Work Cycles — A Google Sheets template that encourages working in disciplined cycles, designed for those who have trouble staying organized, and can potentially boost productivity 2x to 4x.

yabai — An extension to the built-in window manager on macOS that allows you to control your windows, spaces, and displays freely using an intuitive command line interface with optional user-defined keyboard shortcuts.
 

Articles & Resources

The Surprising Connection Between After-Hours Work and Decreased Productivity — More specifically this is a summary of Slack’s Workforce Index, a survey based on responses from more than 10,000 desk workers around the world, and the title is a reference to one of the main findings.

Things That Aren't Doing The Thing — A brief and poignant and almost poetic description of how to make sure you you're actually getting stuff done and not just treading water.

5 Lessons on Career Growth From a Google Exec — The article version of a talk from a conference called Medium Day from an engineer who's had an impressive growth path over the past 10 years. Also available to watch on YouTube if you prefer the talk.

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Onsites.fyi — A resource of 550+ interview experiences with the big 5 tech companies that help you learn from tech interviews that others have taken, covering software engineering, machine learning, data scientist, with more categories coming soon.

New Study Finds an Unstructured 5-Minute Break Can Help Restore Attention — From a University of Sydney study that looked at various common attention hacks and determined this simple hack is all that's needed. Personally, I like taking about 20 of these per day, but maybe that's just me.

Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time — A pertinent quote: "...it’s not the quantity of time that you are able to juggle, assign and manage that matters, it’s the quality of the time that you are able to spend on your tasks."

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X (@LouisLazaris) and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
techproductivity.co
@LouisLazaris

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