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Your Brain’s Hidden Rules for Shaping Behavior
Life

Your Brain’s Hidden Rules for Shaping Behavior

"To truly understand habits is to understand how the brain designs our behavior. Insight alone won’t magically change habits, but once you grasp why it’s so hard, you’ll know how to spend your time to earn better ones." — Professor Jaeseung Jeong, from his recommendation of
Jul 9, 2025 5 min read
Color-Coding Your Calendar to Improve Time Management
Productivity

Color-Coding Your Calendar to Improve Time Management

Cognitive load is the amount of mental energy your brain spends processing information. Psychologists note that our working memory can handle only 4–5 items at once. Yet modern knowledge workers juggle dozens of tasks every day. The problem is that once cognitive load passes a certain threshold, your brain’
Jun 25, 2025 5 min read
How to Turn Ideas into Actionable To-Dos
Productivity

How to Turn Ideas into Actionable To-Dos

We back up thousands of photos and hundreds of files, yet we rarely archive our most valuable assets: ideas. Those flashes in the shower, the commute brainstorms, the clever fixes from a quick chat—most vanish within days or sink into forgotten notes. That’s a problem, because some of
Jun 11, 2025 4 min read
A Digital Guide to Integrating GTD + Bullet Journal + PARA
Productivity

A Digital Guide to Integrating GTD + Bullet Journal + PARA

Why Three Methods Need One System Picture this: a GTD book on your desk, a PARA folder structure neatly arranged on your laptop, and a bullet journal open beside you. Each is a great productivity method on its own—but have you ever wondered whether the three can actually work
May 28, 2025 7 min read
Calendar Note-Taking Inspired by Sam Altman
Productivity

Calendar Note-Taking Inspired by Sam Altman

How many times did you open your calendar today? Right after waking up, on the subway, before a meeting, over lunch, to check when you can head home—most of us glance at it dozens of times. If it’s the screen we see most, could it be more than
May 14, 2025 5 min read
Three Scheduling Strategies to Sustain Focus(feat. Task Cycling)
Productivity

Three Scheduling Strategies to Sustain Focus(feat. Task Cycling)

Staying focused keeps getting harder. With constant notifications and an endless stream of information, how do you protect your attention. Here are three simple, practical methods you can adopt right away. Pomodoro The Pomodoro Technique uses focused sprints and short breaks, most commonly 25 minutes of work followed by a
May 7, 2025 3 min read
ADHD Time Management Guide: Body Doubling and Hyperfocus
Productivity

ADHD Time Management Guide: Body Doubling and Hyperfocus

For many people with ADHD, time can feel slippery. It races past at one moment and crawls at the next. Standard scheduling tips often miss the mark because an ADHD brain works differently. The good news is there are strategies designed for these differences. From time management to managing focus
Apr 16, 2025 5 min read
Switch Log by Superhuman’s Founder
Productivity

Switch Log by Superhuman’s Founder

Why did context switching get such a bad name? Most productivity advice treats context switching as the enemy. You often hear “focus on one thing at a time” and “protect deep work by minimizing switching.” Studies are frequently cited showing that it can take around 23 minutes to regain full
Apr 2, 2025 6 min read
Brain Dump: Clearing a Cluttered Mind
Productivity

Brain Dump: Clearing a Cluttered Mind

Have you ever gone to bed after a long day, only to lie awake because your mind will not quiet down? Tomorrow’s tasks, things to prepare, and unresolved worries keep looping. You tell yourself you will think about it in the morning, yet the unease does not leave. When
Mar 26, 2025 5 min read
Plan-Do-Check-Act: A PDCA Time Management Guide
Productivity

Plan-Do-Check-Act: A PDCA Time Management Guide

Many of us end the day with a full calendar yet leave the important work unfinished. Plans multiply, execution lags, and the list grows while the done column stays thin. Among many planning methods, the PDCA cycle stands out for its simplicity and power. PDCA stands for Plan, Do, Check,
Mar 12, 2025 5 min read
A Time Management Guide for Productive Hybrid Work
Productivity

A Time Management Guide for Productive Hybrid Work

Since the end of the pandemic, hybrid work that mixes office days and remote days has become commonplace. This is more than a change of location. It reshapes how we work and the culture around work. A flexible setup offers autonomy and deeper focus, yet it also asks each of
Mar 5, 2025 4 min read
The Multitasking Trap That Drains Productivity
Productivity

The Multitasking Trap That Drains Productivity

A modern workday is scored by constant pings. More than twenty Slack channels, client specific email labels, fresh Jira project rooms spun up on the fly, and four new channels added in the past two weeks. It can feel like you are a call center agent juggling dozens of conversations
Feb 27, 2025 5 min read
A Calendar Workflow for People with ADHD
Productivity

A Calendar Workflow for People with ADHD

People with ADHD often find it hard to plan and use time in a steady way amid a busy day. Tasks get tangled in your head, due dates feel fuzzy, and stress builds. One tool helps reduce the noise and make the next action clear. A calendar. Used well, it
Feb 19, 2025 4 min read
Energy Mapping: A Time Management Aligned with Your Body’s Rhythm
Life

Energy Mapping: A Time Management Aligned with Your Body’s Rhythm

There is a resource as precious as time. It is your energy. When you use energy wisely, you can sustain high performance and real growth. Pour that energy into the wrong work at the wrong time, though, and stress builds, burnout follows, overall productivity drops, and even your health can
Feb 10, 2025 4 min read
Starting the New Year with Digital Minimalism
Life

Starting the New Year with Digital Minimalism

Every year we make fresh resolutions and plans, only to watch them fade as daily life takes over. How about a different kind of reset this year Try practicing digital minimalism. In a world where it feels impossible to get through a day without a phone or a laptop, cleaning
Jan 16, 2025 4 min read
Start Managing Your Time with a Time Log
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Start Managing Your Time with a Time Log

We all have the same 24 hours in a day. So why do some people accomplish more with the same amount of time? Peter Drucker lays out the essentials of time management in Managing Oneself. 1. Time diagnosis: Are you directing your hours, or drifting through them Many of us
Jan 9, 2025 3 min read
Practical Productivity Tips You Can Use Today(feat. Time Wise)
Productivity

Practical Productivity Tips You Can Use Today(feat. Time Wise)

We all search for ways to live more productively. Yet busy routines and ingrained habits make it hard to practice better time management. Time Wise distills answers to that challenge into one concise volume. The book presents short, real world habits from many people and settings, and offers clear solutions
Jan 2, 2025 3 min read
Designing an Efficient Workflow with GTD
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Designing an Efficient Workflow with GTD

Have you ever felt that more time goes into thinking about work than actually doing it The sight of an overfilled list that never seems to shrink is exhausting. When too much sits in the mind, stress and anxiety rise, and it becomes hard to know where to begin. Getting
Dec 26, 2024 5 min read
Productive To Do List Guide
Productivity

Productive To Do List Guide

A to do list is a tool almost everyone has tried. In today’s complex work environment, however, simply writing a list rarely delivers the productivity you hope for. This guide gathers the central ideas from four earlier pieces. It explains the limits and the strengths of a to do
Dec 18, 2024 5 min read
Less but Better: The Power of Essentialism
Life

Less but Better: The Power of Essentialism

How often do we lose sight of what is essential? We work hard within the time we have. Yet is that effort truly aimed at the essential, or are we spending energy on what does not matter? A short checklist can help you take stock. How many items would apply
Dec 16, 2024 3 min read
Living a Day with Time Density
Life

Living a Day with Time Density

We all receive the same twenty four hours. Yet some people seem to create much more with that time. The difference is not only how time is used. It is also the idea of time density. “How full did today feel” The question may sound unusual. We are more used
Dec 12, 2024 4 min read
How to Write a To Do List with the LNO Framework
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How to Write a To Do List with the LNO Framework

We face a wide range of tasks every day across multiple projects and roles. A to do list is a simple and effective way to manage time and hit goals, yet listing tasks alone rarely maximizes productivity. This is where the LNO framework helps. The LNO framework classifies work strategically
Nov 20, 2024 3 min read
Why Small Wins from Daily Routines Matter
Life

Why Small Wins from Daily Routines Matter

We often think big goals require bold decisions and dramatic effort. In reality, the foundation is a tiny routine repeated over time. The small wins you stack every day are what deliver the long-term outcomes you want. This piece explains why those “small wins” matter and how self-discipline makes them
Nov 6, 2024 3 min read
Time Management Guide for Solopreneurs
Productivity

Time Management Guide for Solopreneurs

A solopreneur is someone who runs an entire business alone. The term may sound new, but the idea has long existed in the form of one-person businesses, freelancers, or people juggling multiple jobs. What distinguishes a solopreneur is not just working solo, but building and growing a business on the
Oct 14, 2024 3 min read
How Startups Grow with a Product-Centric Approach
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How Startups Grow with a Product-Centric Approach

One of the biggest questions for startups is how to stand out in the market. Launching and succeeding with a new product is never easy—especially in spaces already saturated with competing options. If you have ever asked, “What strategy can actually grow a startup?”, this piece is for you.
Oct 8, 2024 6 min read
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