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
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
15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes
This is a comprehensive guide to creating a profitable online course, based on my experience developing 6 courses over 7 years, which have b
I previously described how the weekly review is an operating system, funneling each bit of information you captured during the week to its p
Hi Praxis subscribers! Welcome back to the fourth installment in Tiago Forte’s series on P.A.R.A., the organizational system he uses to orga
As part of my year-end review, I always review my favorite reading of the year. These usually tend to be “long-form” online essays diving de
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I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders. Weihaur’s coaching business
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
In Part 6, I recommended treating any deliverable (whether it’s a simple email all the way to a full-fledged product) as a series of evoluti
One of the most exciting trends in coming years will be the formation of cooperative working groups made up of independent contractors. Whe
A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch
In Part 1 of the Going Nomad series, I explained why my partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico at the end of the year. In Part 2, I’ll te
In Part 1, I argued that curating the content of others was an excellent way to start creating content of one’s own, whether your goal is ad
In Part 11, I introduced the concept of a “critical path” of tasks in a project, and the rationale for pushing tasks as late as possible on
In Part 8, we looked at divergence and convergence as the two fundamental modes of all creative work. Now let’s see what this looks like in
My partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico City later this year. This post explains why, both to clarify for myself, and to be able to sha
In the beginning, is a message. You have something to say. A message that wants to get out of you. That needs to get out of you or else it w
Now it’s time to look at the JIT Project Manager’s toolkit. How do we put these ideas into practice in our day to day work? Through Workflow
In Part 19, I argued that continuously finding new sources of motivation was the most important challenge for knowledge workers, and that th
Over the past year, I’ve seen P.A.R.A. implementations of all shapes and sizes. I’ve seen them from every corner of the globe, in languages
The following are the results of my Mid-Year Review, which I do every year around the beginning of July. It is a simple process of reflectio
In P.A.R.A Part I, I argued that the Project List was the lynchpin of modern productivity, serving as a dashboard of your current commitment
