Superorganizers

How hard should I push myself?

What the science of stress tells us about peak performance

The CEO of No

How entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson turns emails into opportunities

The Four Kinds of Side Hustles

The CEO of Kettle and Fire breaks down how he thinks about side business opportunities

The CEO with an Empty Calendar

How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings

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How Josh Kaufman Does Research 

The author of The Personal MBA shares his process for finding answers hiding in plain sight

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The Double Life of Productivity’s Most Famous Doctor

YouTuber Ali Abdaal shares how he makes the productivity videos that have netted him 1M subscribers

Amanda Goetz Doesn’t Believe in Balance

The VP of Marketing at the Knot Talks About Blending Rather Than Balancing Work and Life

How the Head of Growth at Superhuman Does His Email

Gaurav Vohra on how he uses focus and flow to find order in the chaos of his work life

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

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The Notetaking Cold War

Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan

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5 Ways to Get the Most Out of iOS

Examining the hidden gems inside of your iPhone

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Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time

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Action Item: The Quest to be Good at Everything

The co-founder of Bark shares his 8 + 1 system for becoming excellent at life

Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

The bestselling novelist shares his recipe for taking notes that spark novels.

How I bought a business for $0

Hi—Dan here. We're continuing Justin Mares's column on side businesses today! You can read previous editions here.Before starting Kettle &am

You have to get good before you get better

Two Shorts: Get good then get better, Kevin Yien's OKR template

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Peter Boyce is a People Person

How a top venture capitalist uses Airtable to build a Personal CRM

Hunting Knowledge with Eric Jorgenson

How the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant curates wisdom

How Anne-Laure Le Cunff Wrote 200 Articles In One Year

Mindful productivity helps her stay prolific without burning out

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Polina Marinova Pays Attention to the Little Things

How the creator of The Profile learned to read people — and used it to create a popular newsletter

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A Sneak Peak At a Next Generation Personal CRM

A preview of Clay + access to Hebbia.ai

Organizing Superorganizers

Happy Saturday! For a long time I’ve wanted to make the Superorganizers archive more useful. There’s a ton of information in there, but the

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How to never lose another memory again

The co-creator of Flow State explains what happens when you put your entire life in bullet points.

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The Science of Productivity Cycles

Why we get tired of our workspaces, and why new environments stimulate productivity

What’s Going On When Hard Work Seems Impossible?

Work and procrastination are controlled by the neurotransmitter dopamine. We explore dopamine's role in productivity, and what it means for getting yourself unstuck.