The hottest Productivity Substack posts right now

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GRANTED: What psychological safety is not and why we choose the wrong careers

Granted • 19 implied HN points • 02 Feb 19
💼 Business Productivity
  1. When making career choices, prioritize who you want to become over what you want to achieve.
  2. Psychological safety in organizations is not about being relaxed, comfortable, or nice - it's about fostering a culture of respect, trust, and openness.
  3. To boost happiness, consider spending money to save time and making time-saving habits like canceling a meeting each week.

How to work efficiently, how to efficiently get things done, and how to make the team operate efficiently.

Howard’s Newsletter • 1 HN point • 22 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Efficiency in work is achieved by breaking down tasks into smaller segments and following a time management rule.
  2. Utilizing tools like Git, Sublime Text, and Org mode can enhance team collaboration and productivity.
  3. Assigning specific tasks, maintaining documentation, and focusing on action helps in achieving project efficiency and FDA compliance.
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005: My Evening and Morning Routines

Harnessing the Power of Nutrients • 39 implied HN points • 29 Apr 16
🏥 Health & Wellness Productivity
  1. The post discusses how to design evening and morning routines to improve sleep quality and productivity.
  2. Various tools and practices like blue-light deprivation, list-making, and nutritious breakfasts are highlighted for enhancing routines.
  3. The importance of activities like making the bed, morning walks, and incorporating low-decision, high-nutrition breakfasts are emphasized.

20 Obvious Learnings From Our Best Founders

Venture Prose • 19 implied HN points • 11 Oct 18
💼 Business Productivity
  1. Best founders excel at attention to details while maintaining high performance velocity.
  2. Best founders understand the power of aiming beyond 100% to achieve exponential growth.
  3. Best founders prioritize surrounding themselves with intelligent individuals to challenge and learn from.

TBM 277: Bring Back Fun

The Beautiful Mess • 3 HN points • 12 Mar 24
💼 Business Productivity
  1. Working with interesting people in a fun environment can make solving challenging problems exciting and rewarding.
  2. Many people in product making industries find joy in solving fun problems with diverse and engaging teams.
  3. The current tech landscape is becoming more serious and competitive, with a focus on efficiency, but there is a strong desire to bring back fun, creativity, and collaboration in workplaces.

Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #39

Creative Destruction • 5 implied HN points • 28 Jun 23
🌞 Climate & Environment Productivity
  1. Sustainability is evolving beyond traditional concepts towards holistic thinking and regeneration.
  2. The era of endless growth is over, and the planet is now making decisions for us.
  3. The concept of Swaraj emphasizes collective autonomy, self-sufficiency, and living in harmony with nature.

Làm thuê và làm chủ

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 19 implied HN points • 28 Mar 18
💼 Business Productivity
  1. As an employer, it's crucial to create a working environment where employees are valued, developed, and potentially given opportunities for growth to retain talent.
  2. Employers need to offer competitive benefits to attract and respect their workforce, striving for a mutually beneficial relationship rather than viewing employees as replaceable.
  3. There's a need to shift the mentality in Vietnamese society to value employees and their contributions, fostering an environment where skill development and commitment are encouraged.

How to Run Effective Sprint Planning Sessions

The Incrementalist • 4 HN points • 30 Jul 23
💼 Business Productivity
  1. Bulk of the sprint planning should happen 2 weeks leading up to the sprint start, allowing time for preparation and setting the stage for success.
  2. During the sprint planning session, focus on high-level sprint review and alignment, while detailed discussions should occur prior to the meeting.
  3. Each team member should take ownership and drive their work stream, creating tickets and breaking down work into manageable chunks, ensuring a proactive and self-driven approach.

Shaping Obsidian's Tomorrow - How Obsidian Can Embrace AI and Stay True to Its Roots

Exploring Tools for Thought • 1 implied HN point • 23 Nov 24
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Obsidian is known for its focus on privacy, making it a strong tool for personal knowledge management. This is an important feature for many users who want to keep their data secure.
  2. The rise of AI presents both opportunities and challenges for Obsidian. It raises questions about how to integrate AI capabilities without losing user control or compromising privacy.
  3. There are bold ideas out there for making AI work with Obsidian. Developers can bridge the gap between AI technology and the platform while maintaining its core values.

AI Anxiety

Marcio Klepacz • 4 HN points • 14 May 23
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Large language models have the potential to revolutionize software development by simplifying the process from coding to output.
  2. While AI can boost productivity, it's important to be specific about intentions and details to avoid misunderstandings.
  3. AI can take on repetitive tasks, but humans should remember the importance of critical thinking and understanding consequences.

Thời gian

Thái | Hacker | Kỹ sư tin tặc • 19 implied HN points • 11 Sep 17
📖 Philosophy Productivity
  1. When feeling overwhelmed with work, it's important to prioritize daily activities and break free from unproductive habits to manage time effectively.
  2. Valuing your own time leads to respecting others' time, reflected in punctuality and consideration for others in public spaces.
  3. Regardless of background or wealth, everyone has 24 hours a day—how time is utilized greatly impacts individual lives, where every phone notification could be a subtle invasion of personal time.

Why You Should Join Tome

Why You Should Join • 4 implied HN points • 03 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Tome is reimagining how presentations are created and experienced.
  2. They offer dynamic, interactive storytelling tools optimized for modern workflows.
  3. Tome's exceptional team, rapid growth, and unique format set them apart in the market.

The First Scrum...

Rethinking Software • 1 HN point • 30 Sep 24
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Scrum is an approach used to make teamwork more effective. It helps teams focus on delivering results in small, manageable pieces.
  2. Good communication is essential in Scrum. Regular check-ins and updates keep everyone on the same page and help solve problems quickly.
  3. Scrum encourages continuous improvement. Teams should always look for ways to do better and learn from past experiences.

2023 - Year in Review

trydeepwork • 2 implied HN points • 01 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. In 2023, over 2,000 users completed 17,000 sessions totaling 17,100 deep work hours.
  2. Highlights of 2023 for trydeepwork included new features like sign-in with Google and Twitter, weekly challenges, and more.
  3. For 2024, plans include improving platform features, growing the community, and adding social features for support in achieving personal goals.

Rabbit Holes 🕳 #32

Creative Destruction • 3 implied HN points • 10 May 23
🎭️ Culture Productivity
  1. Embrace dignity in all tasks for a sense of purpose and authenticity in what you do.
  2. Reflect on the importance of time and prioritize meaningful experiences over constant productivity.
  3. Disconnect self-worth from overworking and focus on a balanced life for personal growth and fulfillment.

Why engineers need to be bored.

On Engineering • 3 HN points • 05 May 23
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. The Pareto principle applies to engineering work and problems, with a small group often responsible for a majority of the outcomes.
  2. Innovation and creativity in engineering often stem from incorporating boredom into the workday.
  3. Encouraging free-form boredom time can lead to increased creativity, innovation, and unique solutions in engineering teams.

11 habits for healthy social media use

Dachi • 2 implied HN points • 27 Nov 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Productivity
  1. Understand the purpose of each social media platform in your life and prioritize what matters to you.
  2. Use social media to strengthen relationships, not just for passive consumption.
  3. Set limits on how often you use social media to stay updated without getting overwhelmed.

TfT #9 / Meaningful structures

Tools for Thought • 3 HN points • 16 Feb 23
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. Chaos and disorganization harm productivity by draining energy, focus, and causing cognitive taxes
  2. Meaningful structures are essential for productivity and should simplify choice, perception, and computation
  3. To create an effective structure, start with first principles, maintain universality, build a Minimal Viable Structure, simplify, keep it lean and antifragile, and automate

Explore and Exploit: Importance of Side Projects

trydeepwork • 1 HN point • 02 Jun 24
💼 Business Productivity
  1. It's important to balance trying new things (exploration) and focusing on what you already know (exploitation). This balance keeps life interesting and engaging.
  2. Side projects can be valuable for exploring your interests. Don’t feel guilty about them; they help prevent burnout by adding novelty.
  3. When starting new projects, label them as exploratory or exploitative. This helps you know when it's okay to abandon something and when you should commit fully.

Benefits of Taking Meeting Notes

Exploring Tools for Thought • 1 implied HN point • 09 Mar 24
💼 Business Productivity
  1. Taking meeting notes can be a boring task, but it's a valuable investment of time.
  2. Taking notes can improve recall as it reinforces memory for key points like agreements, problems, and action items.
  3. Meeting notes provide peace of mind by serving as a record to consult if needed, allowing mental space to focus on the present.

Eisenhower Matrix Kanban Style

Exploring Tools for Thought • 1 implied HN point • 28 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Productivity
  1. The Eisenhower Matrix is a time management tool that helps prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance, enhancing productivity and decision-making.
  2. Divide tasks into Urgent and Important, Important but Not Urgent, Urgent but Not Important, or Neither Urgent nor Important to focus on what truly matters.
  3. Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix in tools like Obsidian, using methods like Kanban boards, can simplify task organization and enhance visual appeal.