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
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
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
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 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
This is a comprehensive guide to creating a profitable online course, based on my experience developing 6 courses over 7 years, which have b
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
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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
One of the most exciting trends in coming years will be the formation of cooperative working groups made up of independent contractors. Whe
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
