One critical aspect of the radical incrementalist approach, which runs counter to much mainstream advice on productivity, is thus to be willing to stop when your daily time is up, even when you’re bursting with energy and feel as though you could get much more done. If you’ve decided to work on a given project for fifty minutes, then once fifty min

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YOWO:

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you needed to change your mindset and how did you do it?

Derek:

There are 4 categories we can look at.

Most people think about going from being an employee to being self employed and they think that it would be easy to take a step from being an employee to being self employed

There are two m

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Unconventional for a company of Rippling’s size, Parker has no executive assistant. This means you can’t simply slide onto his calendar. The result is that he spends far less of his time in meetings, and far more on product, than the average founder. A compound product requires undivided attention. 

One of the things I’ve found just for kind of managingmyself is that if I try to just go straight into the day, almost every morning when I wake up and read through my emails  and get the news, it’s almost like getting punched with sort of like a ton of new context. And it’s like, “Okay, I need to  internalize this.”  So I found that... See more