Schedule Nothing: The Best of the Internet
Why you should schedule nothing and 4 more of the best links from around the web on how to get stuff done.
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Productivity Secrets: The Best of the Internet
Productivity secrets for startups and the best articles from around the web on how to get more done.
Share More Feedback and Recognition with Individual Likes & Comments Per Done
We’ve revamped feedback so that you can now add comments and likes to individual dones to make it easier to give specific feedback on people’s dones.
Reset Your Mind! The Best of the Internet
How to take a break and reset your mind, along with the best productivity articles from around the web.
Shine Bright Like a … Lightbulb?
Light the way forward, friends!
Peter Thiel’s Philosophy of Extreme Manager Focus
For extremely successful people like Peter Thiel, ordinary focus isn't enough. Here's how Peter Thiel ran PayPal with extreme manager focus.
Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus
“What are your top five priorities for this week?” “What are the top three objectives and key results you’re using to measure how you’re doing for the quarter?” These are questions that get thrown around by managers at work to help their teams prioritize and focus on achieving the most important accomplishments. In Pet
Perspectives on Work Culture
Culture has become the defining issue that will distinguish the most successful businesses from the rest of the pack. — Ginny Rometty, CEO of IBM, who also notes that company culture has to be organic and come “from the bottom up.” Check out our photo safari of 10 awesome startups and their defining work culture. Shopl
Positive Perspectives on Progress
[A]fter a year of practice in my parents garage I came to suck a lot less, and by the time I gave up the instrument I had risen to the ranks of the “Merely OK.” But I didn’t feel “Merely OK.” I felt like a king, because I knew from whence I came. I knew [...]
Ray Bradbury says Action is Hope
Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end [...]
Schedules of Seriously Productive People
The schedules of some pretty productive people. Lesson: amidst your hard work, don’t forget to eat well, exercise/take walks, and spend time with your peeps. Also, I like Monsieur Flaubert’s idea of breakfast. (via idlethink)
Reconsidering the Startup Open Floor Plan Office
Here's how Shopify and Zappos are reconsidering the standard startup open floor plan office to have collaboration and productivity without all of the noise.
Perspectives on Procrastination
We are constantly trading off what we are doing now against what we might do in the future. As long as we are doing that in a reasonable way, it doesn’t matter that we are putting some things off. Frank Partnoy reports on how experts in different fields view procrastination in Procrastination Rules. He describes how [.
Productivity Tips from Hank Green
To send you into the weekend, here’s Hank of the Vlogbrothers sharing some tongue-in-cheek productivity tips. I dunno – do you think that chair is ergonomic enough? (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Productivity Tips from the Best
Get some productivity ideas from some famous artists, writers, and musicians. Our particular funny favorite, Henrik Ibsen. Nothing like those mortal enemies to get the motors running! Source: Lapham’s Quarterly via TNW
Productivity Issues
“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham, www.phdcomics.com We spend an enormous amount of time trying to get the world to align with the vision we have for what will make us happy or successful. Whatever “it” is, figuring out how to deal with the noise in your head is probably faster and cheaper than changing [...]
Productivity for a Good Day’s Work
37signals’s DHH writes in A good day’s work about the frustration from endless work. His solution to anxiety and worry is to reflect on the day.
Productivity — the amount of output delivered per...
“Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money.”
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Rethinking Productivity
Productivity tools can become part of the loop of unproductive work when the tools become the focus, not the work.
Scott Belsky on Creative Productivity
Productivity is not about how efficient you are at work. Instead, your productivity is really about how well you are able to make an impact in what matters most to you. Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, talking about creative productivity.
Secret Tips to Increase Your Focus
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Peter Dinklage on Success
The actor, Peter Dinklage, commenting on finding his path to success while staying true to himself.
Positivity Drives Productivity
Watch Shawn Achor’s entertaining, thought-provoking TEDxBloomington talk on the power of positive psychology.