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
In Part 17, I argued that unique states of mind are the most powerful resource available to knowledge workers. But these states are difficul
In my previous article on how I perform my Annual Review, I briefly discussed the Personal Narrative Vision (PNV) exercise. I’ve developed t
Over the last year I filmed a short documentary on the life and artistic career of my father Wayne Forte. He has been one of the strongest
Let’s look at how a single source can proceed through the layers of progressive summarization. These are Layer 1 notes I took on an article
In Part I, I explained Progressive Summarization, a method for easily creating highly discoverable notes. In Part II, I gave you many exampl
In Part 5, I introduced The Iron Triangle of Project Management and the idea that any given deliverable can be reduced or expanded in scope
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 18, I introduced the idea that our states of mind come and go in “waves of motivation,” and that we should try to use them to our ad
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
I’ve decided to post my list of life goals here, after years of being cagey and secretive about them. My fear has been that people will some
You should think of the people you’re working with at each stage of the publishing process as your publishing team. Each one contributes som
In Part 19, I argued that continuously finding new sources of motivation was the most important challenge for knowledge workers, and that th
Hello Praxsters!I have something special to share with you today: the first contributions of our Praxis Writing Fellows!I recruited a few of
By Kathryn Tongg 1. Establish the preferred method of communication right away. Everyone has a way they prefer to communicate. Whether this
In Part 10, I argued that digital knowledge work was fundamentally different than other kinds of work, because its structure, features, and
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
15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes
I recently finished listening to the audiobook of Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek (Amazon Affiliate Link), by Manu Saadia. It was pr
I advise everyone I know to create an online course. Everyone has something to say. Everyone has valuable knowledge that others could benefi
By Christina LuoProductivity is about managing emotions as much as projects. Yet we often focus on productivity as a toolset more than a min
In Part 16, we refined our understanding of Return on Attention by taking into account our biggest constraint as knowledge workers – not jus
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
I previously described how the weekly review is an operating system, funneling each bit of information you captured during the week to its p
