Note: On October 9, 2019 at 1pm Pacific time I will be hosting a private conversation with Billy Bross for Praxis members only. Scroll to th
One of the best ways to advance your career, start an extra income stream, or become an entrepreneur is by creating content. By “content” I
This article is a guide for getting started with PARA, an organizational system for your digital life. Here’s the 5-step process I recommend
Why the weekly review is the cornerstone of my life
In Part 15, I advocated for multithreading, or weaving together multiple projects to take advantage of unexpected opportunities and synergie
I recently compiled all my notes, findings, and ideas about the “ideal customer” for Building a Second Brain, and put them into a single doc
Reading through the previous three parts, a question probably popped into your mind: does this apply only to text? It’s an important one, be
I recently signed a six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster for my book Building a Second Brain. As a first-time author, and in the
I recently read and took notes on You Need a Budget (YNAB-Affiliate Link), a popular book on personal finance and budgeting (with accompanyi
It is NOT easy OR cheap to “hire a VA.” But if done right, it is profoundly transformational not just for your daily workload but for your q
In Part I, I introduced Progressive Summarization, a method for easily creating highly discoverable notes. In Part II, I gave you examples a
I spend 17 minutes per day on email, or 7.43% of my total work time over the past 12 months.The average information worker, in contrast, spe
Welcome to the Project List Mindsweep, a step-by-step exercise to help you properly identify every project in your work and life. Your Proje
In Part 14, we looked at the potential for massively increasing our bandwidth by creating “personal productivity networks.” These networks a
Hello Praxsters!I have something special to share with you today: the first contributions of our Praxis Writing Fellows!I recruited a few of
In my previous article on how I perform my Annual Review, I briefly discussed the Personal Narrative Vision (PNV) exercise. I’ve developed t
Publishing a book is like running for political office. There are a lot of people out there who you want to take a certain action, at a cert
In Part 1, I introduced Return-on-Attention (ROA) as a way to evaluate how we invest our most precious resource – our attention. But there i
You enter your kitchen for a quick lunch: how is it exactly that your brain solves the problem “prepare lunch as efficiently as possible”? Y
In Part 13, we looked at the benefits of Component Thinking, which involves thinking of any product we are working on as made up of subcompo
Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series
Your proposal is like a business plan for your book. It needs to justify why your book is worth not just years of your time and effort, but
I previously described how the weekly review is an operating system, funneling each bit of information you captured during the week to its p
This is a comprehensive guide to creating a profitable online course, based on my experience developing 6 courses over 7 years, which have b
