It’s probably safe to say we’d all love to get more results from less effort. Productivity is that elusive blend of efficiency and expertise that allows you to tick off to-do list items and hit gargantuan goals at an unthinkable pace. Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to work smarter, not harder.
Here’s a little not-so-secret secret: we all miss the mark sometimes. Sure, we’re all trying our best. We all have things we want to accomplish with our lives. We have a goal we’re chasing, and we’re determined to achieve it. We think about how great it would be if we could just get it done. […]
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If you’ve spent any time consuming productivity content in the last few years, you’ve likely been exposed to “digital minimalism” rhetoric. It’s all these proclamations that claim to be the be-all-and-end-all of healthy ways to navigate a world increasingly uncomfortably surrounded by screens. Monitoring screen time like a hawk. Keeping your phone in your pocket
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Where were you the first time you learned that hard work didn’t directly correlate to results? That bombshell revelation that feeling busy, or even being busy, wasn’t the only prerequisite to getting your work done and done well? It can be hard for some to take. Some in your office or in your coffee shop
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Meetings. We all know them as the thing we hate the most about our jobs on a biweekly or bimonthly basis. Some consider it perhaps the dumbest thing a great number of smart people around the world still do everyday. It’s remarkable how so many industries, full of supposedly industrious people, still fall back on
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It’s too prevalent a concept. It’s infected offices and workspaces the world over. Buried among all the mugs that proclaim “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee,” and memes about “hoping this email finds you well,” you hear a consistent refrain: “I’m just not a morning person.” Those morning people are the winners,
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You are more than one thing. You contain multitudes. You tackle a lot of different things during your day. Different projects and considerations. Maybe multiple jobs. Multiple side gigs. Even under the umbrella of one job, you probably have several projects requiring different amounts of work and attention. And when you’re reviewing your day, you’d
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There are two types of people in the world. First, there are the people who saw Apple’s debut of their new augmented-reality virtual-reality headset, the Apple Vision Pro, and thought it was a groundbreaking moment in consumer technology that would forever the change the course of modern life. Then, there are the people that thought
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The process of writing for the RescueTime blog isn’t much of a mystery to me anymore. I’ve worked out, after forty or so of these posts, more or less what I’m dealing with. I know what goes into an article, and the tone I aim to hit. And I generally know how much time it
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Fun fact: artificial intelligence helped me write this post. I’m not gonna tell you which parts—that could be a fun guessing game—but I can confirm it had a hand in the process. That’s right—these naturalistic and semi-complex sentences may have been brought to you, at least in part, by our new robot overlords. Domains previously
Worried AI is gonna take your job? You’re fine. Read More »
It was 6:55am on the West Coast—and I had somewhere to be at 7am. It was a teensy bit early for me. My alarm went off, and in the span of three minutes I shuffled out of bed, sat at my desk, clicked a button, and entered into a virtual coffee shop. I heard the
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