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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Howard Th

Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne)Many people think productivity is about getting work done. But it’s not. Instead, it’s about making intentional progres

This mirrors a deeper psychological error. The belief that by naming a goal, you are closer to achieving it. That by storing a thought, you have under

A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things

The point of a good task mangement system is to have tasks appear whenever you need them

The audience you are building on other platforms is never truly yours.

Remember that knowledge is a process, not a possession.

I see the question all the time: What’s the best note-taking app? And the answer is always the same: The one you’ll actually use.

One of the biggest problems I have with productivity applications and features is that there are often like the idea of a feature. Backlinking is a g

The best guarantee when building an audience is using tools you can control, and building a brand/product people love – one they won't forget if it su

Once you start gathering data about what’s working and what isn’t, you now have a decision to make.

If it can’t be measured, it gets cut. If it can be measured, it gets over-optimized to death because experimentation is verboten. The result? Marketi

Apps age. Trends change. New tech changes the game. How do you stay consistent without going stale? It takes more than a good idea and skills. It take

AI technology is going to change all our underlying systems. Even existing things such as auto-correct, search indexes or other automation tools will

Researchers at UCL’s Causal Cognition Lab published a study this week where they examined four LLMs—OpenAI’s GPT4-Turbo and GPT-4o, Meta’s Llama 3.1,

Good complexity creates new possibilities. Poor complexity creates unnecessary obstacles.

"More features mean more value" we say to ourselves, like addicts justifying another hit.

Does this new feature serve our core purpose?

“Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.”

When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.

good, productive writing is based on good note-taking. Getting something that is already written into another written piece is incomparably easier tha

Your notes will be useless if you can’t decipher them in the future, or if they’re so long that you don’t even try. Think of yourself not just as a ta

Our drive for simplification pretty much shaped our collective assumptions about software design: easier is always better, and friction is always bad.

Good complexity creates new possibilities. Poor complexity creates unnecessary obstacles.

When everything is easy, nothing feels meaningful.

what determines your ability to write well more than anything else is writing a lot. Once you reach the threshold of writing a decent sentence, the th

The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.

creativity is a fundamental element of human nature, an ability we use every time we come up with a new idea or find a solution to a novel problem. It

Artists who are able to continually create great works throughout their lives often manage to preserve these childlike qualities. Practicing a way of

what determines your ability to write well more than anything else is writing a lot. Once you reach the threshold of writing a decent sentence, the th