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Inside StrikeThru – The Analog System Tripling My Productivity
The author says StrikeThru, an analog notebook system, helps him track tasks, control his thought process, and stay productive by separating daily lists, a dump, a vault, and a calendar.
Why I keep a paper notebook and you should too
The author argues that a paper notebook helps capture thoughts better than digital tools, supports learning and focus, and works as a system for daily notes, idea review, and later processing.
How to Accomplish Things When You Are Not Feeling It
The article suggests organizing your week, starting with the easiest task, breaking large work into smaller steps, and doing a household task when motivation is low.
Exercises for Building Better Teams
The article links team health to a balance between positivity and productivity, then offers retrospective exercises to surface values, assess the current state, and choose actions for improvement.
From Chaos to Efficiency: How to Minimize Distractions in Software Development
The page argues that software developers need time management, focus blocks, clear boundaries, automation, and regular adjustment to reduce interruptions, protect quality, and limit task buildup.
Everything I Know About Shipping Code Faster
The post argues that shipping faster comes from finding code paths quickly, keeping diffs small, testing in batches, reducing reviewer friction, and protecting focus from interruptions.
The Art of Finishing | ByteDrum
The post argues that unfinished projects keep offering possibility, but finishing builds skill, reduces mental clutter, and brings feedback, satisfaction, and professional value.
Trouble making time for work that matters? Try the $10 Game
The post says weekly time budgeting with a manager can clarify goals, improve alignment, and help people make more progress on top priorities. Atlassian calls this the $10 Game.
5 Ways to Master a Healthy Breakfast without Breaking a Sweat
The post argues that skipping breakfast or choosing a quick unhealthy one can hurt productivity, and offers five breakfast options that take no more than five minutes to prepare.
Learning in the Forest
The post argues that teams should optimize for learning over immediate production, because tasks, pairing, demos, and pacing can build skill, energy, and future throughput while juniors learn.
AI #156 Part 1: They Do Mean The Effect On Jobs
The post argues that recent AI progress is already showing up in productivity, jobs, legal services, and agentic tools, while timelines and safety risks are tightening as capability advances.
How did I improve my focus & productivity with a simple Second Brain in Notion?
The author says a minimal Second Brain in Notion, combined with Kanban and regular reviews, gave more clarity about priorities, projects, and weekly focus while keeping knowledge organized.
The importance of taking breaks and recharging your batteries
The page argues that regular breaks improve stamina, focus, productivity, and mental clarity, while also helping prevent burnout. It recommends digital detoxes, time in nature, travel, and timing breaks around milestones.
4 tools to supercharge your Jest Testing and increase your productivity while testing
The page recommends four Jest additions to speed up feedback, narrow test runs, improve assertions, and keep console output clean during development.
The easy road to become a TOP performer software engineer: Simplifying productivity
The article argues that software engineers should focus each day on three high-impact tasks, align work with team priorities, track outcomes, and use simple systems to reduce decision fatigue.
How Top Engineers Structure Their Day to Maximize Their Productivity Without Burnout
The page argues that engineers can ship more by managing energy instead of time, matching deep work to peak hours, batching shallow tasks, and using location and automation to protect focus and reduce burnout.
Goal setting for productive engineers
The post contrasts top-down goals with tiny experiments for engineers working in unstable environments, using the motivation equation to explain when each approach helps or fails.
Are remote workers more productive? That’s the wrong question.
The article argues that the productivity debate misses the main issues around remote work. Flexibility, happiness, accessibility, diversity, retention, and management quality matter more than a simple office-versus-home comparison.
How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities?
The page reports that interruptions affect code writing, code comprehension, and code review in different ways, with requester authority, task type, and interruption type shaping productivity and stress. It also recommends using perception data, not just physiology.
Use A Work Journal To Recover Focus Faster And Clarify Your Thoughts
The author says writing down what you are doing and thinking helps restore context faster after interruptions, makes switching tasks easier, and clarifies thought during long, messy work.
Secret Productivity Tips for Visual Studio 2017
The post lists Visual Studio 2017 features that are disabled by default, showing where to enable them and how they help with search, analysis, unit testing, style enforcement, and shortcuts.
How I stopped my procrastination: Insights into developer mindset
The article links developer procrastination to cognitive overload, decision fatigue and uncertainty, then suggests rituals, smaller tasks, gamification and asking for help to keep work moving.
Frank - How are you so productive?
The post frames productivity as maximizing value while balancing effectiveness and efficiency, then presents practical habits like prioritization, Kaizen, time boxing, focus, and escalation.
The Remote Developer's Toolkit: 10 Must-Have Apps and Software for Working from Home
The page lists ten tools for remote developers, from note-taking and launching apps to pair programming, whiteboarding, cloud dev environments, and async video updates.
Eight Software Markets That AI Will Transform Differently
The text argues that AI coding will reshape software unevenly because different markets have different constraints. Where the limit is developer time or skill, AI can unlock more production and create Jevons-style growth. Where the limit is procurement, regulation, safety, or market demand, cheaper code changes less.
Plan the Years
The author says he settled on a simple planning pattern that starts with pen and paper and continues in a few plain-text files. He credits David Seah and YearCompass as sources that helped him simplify his approach to reflecting on the year and planning the next one.
A Non-Technical Parents’ Guide to Digital Tools for Kids Online Classes
The post recommends a practical setup for kids’ online classes: a dedicated space, better lighting, suitable devices, microphone, speaker, webcam, UPS, and a few basic software tools.
The missing step to all Productivity Advice - Disable Notifications
The text argues that productivity tips only really work when notifications are turned off on all devices, because they interrupt focus and disrupt the rhythm of the day.
A Simple and Easy way to overcome your Twitter Addiction
The author says the use of Twitter took time and productivity and describes a gradual method for reducing dependence, while keeping limited access and keeping work devices away.
Personal Time Management for Busy Managers
The page defines effective, efficient, and effortless, then says personal time management helps people take control of time through self-discipline, better planning, and avoiding wasted effort.
How to make Meetings Successful and Useful
The post says meetings work when they stay focused on a specific problem, happen at the site of the problem, and finish with a solution plus responsible people for the next action.
One Div Zero
A humorous yak-shaving creed casts the programmer and the yak as mutual obstacles to shipping, where effort shifts from useful work to endlessly removing the hair that keeps release blocked.
The Case Against Morning Yoga, Daily Routines, and Endless Meetings
Andrew Chen argues career outcomes follow a power law: rare 'ten-x work' matters far more than routines, and describes how to engineer more chances for it to happen.
Building a Smart Session Tracker for Your Mac's Menu Bar
A bash script that lives in the macOS menu bar via xbar, tracking work sessions, detecting sleep and reboot gaps, and nudging a break after an hour of continuous work.
Soft Skills books for developers
Addy Osmani distills takeaways from 40+ books on productivity, leadership, and psychology into per-title notes for developers, from Deep Work to The Manager's Path.
The Power of Less: Changing Behavior with Leo Babauta
Tim Ferriss excerpts Leo Babauta's habit-change method: one habit at a time, a public commitment, and daily reporting for 30 days.
5 Ways I Read More Than 50 Books Last Year
Mike Dariano's account of going from a book a month to a book a week, built on quitting bad books, following other readers, and cutting the apps that compete with reading.
Something feels weird about this economy
The U.S. economy looks broadly healthy, but productivity growth has sped up while job growth has stalled. Noah Smith argues the data fit a data-center and capital-utilization boom better than a simple AI job-loss story.
Leverage points decide what's worth systemizing
Don't systematize everything — borrow leverage points from systems-thinking and pick the spots where a system actually changes the before/after state.
Parkinson's Law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.