The Dumbest and Best Productivity Trick
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The Dumbest and Best Productivity Trick
I’m inspired by Hunter S. Thompson’s (idealized) breakfast routine, but without the drugs; once a day, he’d spend ~2 hours to sync up with all his responsibilities, but the majority of his day was in unpredictable creative divergence.
Edith Wharton was also concerned about the intrusion of the small on her bigger pursuits. During the nine-year period when she lived at the Mount, her expansive estate in the Berkshires, Wharton insisted on a rigid routine to protect her writing from the distractions of her frequent visitors. From when she awoke until at least 11:00 a.m., she would
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I thought this was how smart people worked. Creative accomplishment isn’t organized, it doesn’t obey rules, and it has no respect for the clock or the needs of the body.
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang • Rest in the World: My Morning Routine (Updated Edition)
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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