2017 was a good year for me at work. The most important way I was able to level up was in my planning, execution, and review process. After years of tinkering with a myriad of different productivity m
.Mail (I'm going to use DotMail here, for easier reading) was an email app concept I originally came up with and designed in 2010. DotMail never saw the light of the day. It never launched and it woul
When you first start a product, you have a small set of problems you want to solve for a specific audience, and you go all in. As a product gains customers and grows, you have to focus on what’s next.
Ryan Holiday Jan 23, 2018 · 7 min read There is a lot of mythology about a writer’s life and routine, and very little of it is true. It’s one reason why that famous misquote from Hemingway is so popul
Bill Belichick tried to celebrate. He really did. He clapped his hands and let out a Whoo! and shot his right arm skyward, then hugged his defensive coordinator, Matt Patricia , as if they’d just stru
Mitchel Resnick Jan 20, 2018 · 5 min read [Excerpt from my book Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play ] Discussions about children and new technologi
Scroll We're drowning in email. And the many hours we spend on it are generating ever more work for our friends and colleagues. We can reverse this spiral only by mutual agreement. Hence this Email Charter. Facebook Add one of these links to your email signature: Save our in-boxes!…
Organize your thoughts Writing can be a tool for talking to ourselves when we’re still figuring things out. A sort of mirror or feedback system. A way to understand and articulate design. — Nicole Fen
The futurist artist Luigi Russolo (left) with his noise machine, invented for futurist "symphonies," one of which was performed at the London Coliseum in June 1914. Hulton Archive/Getty Images In Char
An open note to Google To the gmail team, You've built a tool for a billion people. Most of my blog readers use it every day, and so do I. Thanks for creating an effective way for people to connect to
Editor’s Note : This is Part 2 of a 3 part series on using our favorite Mac tools for keeping a commonplace book. You can check out Part 1 here and Part 3 right here . We recently covered the idea of
Editor’s Note : This is Part 1 of a 3 part series on using our favorite Mac tools for keeping a commonplace book. You can check out Part 2 here and Part 3 right here . Despite the fact that our attent
Natalie Nagale, the founder and CEO, discusses how they continue to resolve the thorny issues of trust, culture and progress across timezones. Niti Sharma Follow Jan 18, 2018 · 10 min read F or the la
This article is the last in a series I’ve been writing about goal setting. You can find the previous articles here , here , here , here , and here .* As I write this, it’s been nearly 7 years since I
Very early in my career, I was setting up some pressure sensors. The sensors had tiny wires coming off them, which someone had soldered to shielded co-axial cable running back to the data acquisition
Minnesota native Adam Thielen is living a dream, fully embodying this plucky Vikings squad aiming to wrap up the season in fairy-tale fashion By Jeffri Chadiha | Published Jan. 10, 2018 EDEN PRAIRIE,
Essays How to describe Cyril Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave : It is one of those books – like The Anatomy of Melancholy , The Compleat Angler , Minima Moralia , A Tale of a Tub , Urne Buriall – that def
Isaac Smith Jan 9, 2018 · 10 min read Small Changes that made a Big Impact Having been with the Blanc Media the last two years, 2017 was a exceptional year in many ways. The categories that come to mi
Audio Transcript You just got up early, before anybody else is moving around — except you can hear your wife stirring. Teenager’s probably not up, but school is coming, so he might be dragging himself
The Midori Traveler’s Notebook is not for the faint of heart. Perhaps that takes things to the extreme. It’s rare to find a tool that flies so directly in the face of all-encompassing digitalism and e
When exactly are we the most productive? Thinking back on your last year, you probably have no idea. Days blend together. Months fly by. And another year turns over without any real understanding of h
Pre-S: Plan Your Year is now available. Check it out here . Pre-S #2: This article is the next in a series I’ve been writing about goal setting. You can find the past articles here , here , here , and
All this noise. All this news. What would happen if we stopped consuming it? Pixabay If we were to define the word “philosophy” in both its academic and colloquial sense—that is, actual “philosophy” a
Appears in Summer 2016 Hidden away in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer may be found a small masterpiece of pastoral theology called "A Prayer for Persons Troubled in Mind or in Conscience." The prayer i
Not long ago, a young man stopped me after a sermon and asked a direct question: Is a contemplative life even possible in 21st century America? He deserved more of an answer than I gave him. His quest
I bookmarked “How to Remember and Take Action on What you Read” on @Medium https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-remember-and-take-action-on-what-you-read-c43b309edfbc?source=ifttt--------------2
You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you’ve set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second r
Daniel Sambraus / Getty Like every graduate student, I once holed up in the library cramming for my doctoral oral exams. This ritual hazing starts with a long reading list. Come exam day, the scholar must prove mastery of a field, whether it’s Islamic art or German history. The student sits before a…
Sean Blanda Jan 15, 2017 · 15 min read In January, Medium founder Ev Williams announced that despite his company’s efforts to better the news industry, it would refocus. The reason? We believe there a
@MagdalenaRikanovic The list of successful and wise and brilliant people who made time to journal is almost unbelievable: Oscar Wilde, Susan Sontag, Marcus Aurelius , John Quincy Adams, Anne Frank, Ra
Professionals who work with customers go by many titles. Customer support agent, customer success manager, happiness specialist, support ninja, success rockstar…and the list goes on. With the variety
Note : If you’d like to attend a free training on how to set goals and actually achieve them, click here. For the greater part of a decade, I would set goals — I mean, dreams — and never achieve them.
This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits , my New York Times bestselling book. I've started to notice (partially because of my own failures), that there is one skill that is so valuable that it w
Wealthsimple makes powerful financial tools to help you grow and manage your money. "Finance for Humans" is where we give you smart and easy-to-understand advice on navigating the financial world. Thi
“ Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter. And lead pencil marki
This week's dive into using scheduling instead of task management (see previous articles here ), involves the step I get the most questions about: how do you track all the actionable stuff in your lif
A post over at Kottke.org about the struggle between creativity and productivity is getting a lot of attention today. I don't usually link to trendy articles, but this is right up my alley: "I get mor
Self-Improvement Exercise By Ryan Holiday Updated November 12, 2018 By Ryan Holiday Updated November 12, 2018 It is a paradox that perhaps the single best way to still one’s mind is to put the body in
Every week I grab a coffee and read my gazette about dust. Yes, dust. I subscribe to Disturbances , a weekly email newsletter in which a British cultural geographer named Jay Owens writes about the sc
Hiten Shah Nov 5, 2017 Since 2008, Grammarly has quietly grown one of the most successful self-funded products on the web. Co-founders Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn built a wide product over the past nine years and achieved massive adoption. To date, Grammarly’s free Chrome extension has been…
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