Superorganizers

How smart people organize what they know.

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

The mindful todo list app that's been keeping me focused this week

Apr 28, 2020

If your system was a house, would you want to live in it?

In his book Notes on the Synthesis of Form Christopher Alexander writes about how to design buildings: “[A good design is an] effort to ach

Jun 9, 2020

I’m Married to an Emergency Room Doctor in New York City

How fighting the pandemic has changed our lives forever

Oct 29, 2021

How David Perell writes an essay

Harnessing the power of surprise to build writing that spreads

May 5, 2020

Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy

Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, explains how to cope even when work is hard.

Nov 6, 2020

Action Item: How to become indistractable

We break down Nir Eyal's system for turning down the noise and getting work done

Jul 8, 2020

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

Adobe’s CPO on relentlessly taking action even on the problems no one is talking about

Nov 11, 2020

A Sneak Peak At a Next Generation Personal CRM

A preview of Clay + access to Hebbia.ai

Nov 6, 2021

Misunderstanding Media

The phrase “the medium is the message” predicted much of the internet era. But what does it actually mean?

Jul 1, 2022

Changing the world to change yourself

My subconscious pursuit of love and respect

Oct 1, 2021

The Theology of Productivity

Exploring why productivity can feel empty, and how we can make it whole again

Aug 22, 2020

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

Jun 5, 2020

Organize Your Week with the Weekly Priority Sheet

This week’s article is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and the millions of people who have suffered racial injustice in America. Na

Mar 18, 2021

How to see the future

An MIT PhD reveals his process for researching the future of programming

Aug 6, 2022

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of 1-1 Learning

How to learn anything 98% better than average

Jan 30, 2021

Finding the Truth

What to do when it feels like you're spinning your wheels intellectually

Jul 23, 2020

How New Ideas Happen

“The first step to a new cosmogony is a step back” — Paul Feyerbend, Against Method Raise your hand if you’ve murdered an idea.  I have. It

Jul 21, 2021

How to get your creative work back on track

Artist and designer Coleen Baik shows us how to make a "What's Next" deck

Apr 13, 2021

Action Item: How to Become a Machine

Nate Berkopec tunes himself like a server—in a surprisingly human way

Jun 25, 2021

How to Go Pro as a Creator

John Gannon from GoingVC shares how he made $1mm in revenue as a creator

Jan 21, 2020

How To Run Your Life Inside of Notion

Marie Poulin gives a tour through the most impressive Notion setup I've ever seen

Apr 23, 2021

Will Worrying Make You Better?

In fourth grade my teacher referred to me in a report card as a “nutty professor.” The verdict from the elementary academy was clear: Head i

Jul 11, 2020

Is it new or does it suck?

Hey! Dan here. If you're an introspective person, you probably spend a lot of time asking yourself how things are going: Do I like this? Do