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
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
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
In Part 16, we refined our understanding of Return on Attention by taking into account our biggest constraint as knowledge workers – not jus
15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes
I previously described how the weekly review is an operating system, funneling each bit of information you captured during the week to its p
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 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
This is a presentation and Q&A with Julia Beauchamp, a public speaking coach I recently worked with for an important speaking gig. Her
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
This is a comprehensive guide to creating a profitable online course, based on my experience developing 6 courses over 7 years, which have b
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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 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 The Weekly Review is an Operating System, I detailed the process I go through each week to capture any new open loops, clear my workspace
I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders. Weihaur’s coaching business
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
A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch
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
In 1962, philosopher Thomas Kuhn published his landmark work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, forever changing our view of the histo
This is a recording of a live walkthrough of Superhuman, an email client that works in the browser and on iOS and connects to any Gmail acc
In The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing, I described the main routes for a writer to get published today, and in The Case for Traditi
In Part 4, I introduced the idea of “intermediate packets.” Instead of delivering value in a big project that spans huge amounts of time, we
Once upon a time, we faced the scourge of Information Overload. Too many emails with too many details producing too many open loops to keep
