Category: Focus & Productivity
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28 days of No-Netflix
The thing that incessant streaming entertainment and social media erode is ‘presence’. My ability to be present has been crippled. Reading a book has become hard because my mind goes on so many tangents as I read. I used to blame bad writing but I’m not so sure any more. If I get anything out…
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How I’m getting my brain to focus again
It’s like someone put my mind through a paper shredder. I feel frayed. Fragmented. At first, it was just around the edges. Now it’s all the time.
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An Ode To Hill Charts
In 2018 Basecamp came out with a new kind of to-do list called a hill chart. This is what they look like. Things on the left are being figured out, anything on the right means it’s being done. Stuff on the far left is vague and need lots of figuring out while the far right…
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A 6-Week Learning Resolution
The basic idea was to pick something we want to learn or write about and then commit to creating and publicly sharing one article a week for 6 weeks. 8 of us ended up joining the group and doing this project together. The catch was that you had to pay out $100 to the group…
Josh Pitzalis 