Productivity

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Meaningful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC

51 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting

Eliezer Yudkowsky2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

287 points

157 comments3 min readLW link

The Good Try Rule

AllAmericanBreakfast27 Dec 2020 2:38 UTC

54 points

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Why Productivity Systems Don’t Stick

Matt Goldenberg16 Jan 2021 17:45 UTC

51 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] How do you optimize productivity with respect to your menstrual cycle?

just_browsing7 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC

96 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

Third Time: a better way to work

bfinn7 Jan 2022 21:15 UTC

109 points

69 comments8 min readLW link

Five Ways To Prioritize Better

lynettebye27 Jun 2020 18:40 UTC

127 points

7 comments20 min readLW link 1 review

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC

81 points

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(www.benkuhn.net)

Attention is your scarcest resource

benkuhn30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC

87 points

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(www.benkuhn.net)

Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia

ShannonFriedman9 Mar 2013 18:17 UTC

76 points

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Productivity: Working towards a summary of what we know

adamzerner9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC

73 points

20 comments26 min readLW link

Tools for keeping focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC

129 points

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(www.benkuhn.net)

An Open Letter To Myself On How To Not Get Any Work Done.

HarryO23 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC

42 points

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Productivity Notes I

matto15 Feb 2022 13:08 UTC

8 points

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Self-Experiment: Does Working More Hours Increase My Output?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC

52 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How Long Can People Usefully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC

145 points

8 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

Epistemic Spot Check: The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC

77 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Habitual Productivity

So8res9 Jan 2014 6:44 UTC

72 points

35 comments6 min readLW link

History of the Development of Logical Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC

89 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Obsidian: A Mind Mapping Markdown Editor

lifelonglearner27 May 2020 16:26 UTC

12 points

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(obsidian.md)

Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC

71 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Implementing an Idea-Management System

ryqiem18 Oct 2019 10:48 UTC

40 points

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[Question] What’s your favorite notetaking system?

Elizabeth30 Sep 2019 6:18 UTC

31 points

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Does Thinking Hard Hurt Your Brain?

Raemon29 Apr 2018 18:56 UTC

18 points

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Literature Review: Distributed Teams

Elizabeth16 Apr 2019 1:19 UTC

104 points

37 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] How long can people be productive in [time period]?

Elizabeth6 May 2019 22:35 UTC

47 points

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Automatically Turning Off Computer at Night

Raemon15 Jul 2020 20:42 UTC

19 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

174 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Strategies for Personal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC

136 points

27 comments4 min readLW link

Feature Request: Self-imposed Time Restrictions

adamzerner15 May 2019 22:35 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Does Goal Setting Work?

Swimmer96316 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC

53 points

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Zooming your mind in and out

John_Maxwell6 Jul 2015 12:30 UTC

15 points

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Productivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

John_Maxwell21 Aug 2014 5:05 UTC

19 points

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Managing one’s memory effectively

John_Maxwell6 Jun 2014 17:39 UTC

25 points

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Personal information management

John_Maxwell11 Sep 2012 11:40 UTC

27 points

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Productivity tips for those low on motivation

John_Maxwell6 Mar 2012 2:41 UTC

10 points

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Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?

John_Maxwell28 Dec 2010 10:11 UTC

27 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The Math of When to Self-Improve

John_Maxwell15 May 2010 20:35 UTC

14 points

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Travel Through Time to Increase Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeast23 Aug 2015 1:32 UTC

61 points

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The Cognitive Costs to Doing Things

lionhearted2 May 2011 9:13 UTC

49 points

21 comments4 min readLW link

On Systems—Living a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC

37 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

[Question] How can we measure creativity?

Elizabeth29 Jun 2019 22:30 UTC

32 points

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Mediums Overpower Messages

lsusr20 Oct 2019 5:46 UTC

51 points

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My Hammertime Final Exam

moridinamael22 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC

16 points

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Experiment: Separate High/Low Productive Hours

Raemon8 Feb 2018 4:10 UTC

15 points

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Focus

jefftk15 Sep 2019 15:10 UTC

31 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Productivity tool: race!

wwa16 Jan 2014 21:53 UTC

43 points

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Stop pressing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC

45 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Noticing Wasted Motion

lynettebye17 Sep 2020 2:30 UTC

15 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Being Productive With Chronic Health Conditions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC

87 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Chain Breaking

Mark Xu29 Dec 2020 1:06 UTC

23 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

(markxu.com)

One Year of Pomodoros

Alex_Altair31 Dec 2020 4:42 UTC

56 points

7 comments9 min readLW link

Would most people benefit from being less coercive to themselves?

Matt Goldenberg21 Jan 2021 14:24 UTC

24 points

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The Comprehension Curve

AllAmericanBreakfast22 Feb 2021 22:51 UTC

32 points

9 comments10 min readLW link

MetaPrompt: a tool for telling yourself what to do.

abramdemski16 Mar 2021 20:49 UTC

64 points

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Sabien on “work-life” balance

Rob Bensinger20 May 2021 18:33 UTC

52 points

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How to make errands fun

dominicq17 Jun 2021 11:27 UTC

24 points

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A Guide for Productivity

Marius Hobbhahn23 Jul 2021 7:03 UTC

25 points

6 comments41 min readLW link

Research productivity tip: “Solve The Whole Problem Day”

Steven Byrnes27 Aug 2021 13:05 UTC

46 points

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[Question] Tasks apps w/ time estimates to gauge how much you’ll overshoot?

iamef7 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC

4 points

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How much slower is remote work?

jsteinhardt8 Oct 2021 2:00 UTC

105 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

In Defence of Optimizing Routine Tasks

leogao9 Nov 2021 5:09 UTC

35 points

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Why I am no longer driven

dominicq16 Nov 2021 20:43 UTC

65 points

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How to Become a Magician

Nicole Dieker21 Jan 2022 18:12 UTC

17 points

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A Quick Look At 20% Time

Elizabeth4 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC

78 points

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(acesounderglass.com)

Miscellaneous thoughts on handling a stressful life

VipulNaik5 Feb 2022 17:48 UTC

19 points

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If you say “don’t lose focus,” what does that actually tell you to focus on?

Nicole Dieker10 Feb 2022 21:04 UTC

1 point

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[Question] Have you noticed costs of being anticipatory?

Jack R14 Feb 2022 19:15 UTC

9 points

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Do, Then Think

George23 Feb 2022 13:40 UTC

50 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

The mechanics of my recent productivity

So8res9 Jan 2014 2:30 UTC

172 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8res12 Jan 2014 3:21 UTC

89 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

How I use Google Forms in my Workflow

Harri Besceli26 Jul 2020 12:17 UTC

33 points

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Paper Trauma

Qiaochu_Yuan31 Jan 2018 22:05 UTC

70 points

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What is operations?

Swimmer96326 Sep 2019 14:16 UTC

108 points

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The Monthly Newsletter as Thinking Tool

moridinamael2 Feb 2018 16:42 UTC

39 points

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How Much is Your Time Worth?

lynettebye2 Sep 2019 6:19 UTC

74 points

22 comments6 min readLW link 1 review

[Question] What are your greatest one-shot life improvements?

Mark Xu16 May 2020 16:53 UTC

106 points

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Announcing the Complice Less Wrong Study Hall

MalcolmOcean2 Mar 2015 23:37 UTC

76 points

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High Variance Productivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

83 points

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Chaotic Inversion

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2008 10:57 UTC

85 points

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The Solitaire Principle: Game Theory for One

alkjash17 Jan 2018 0:14 UTC

24 points

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(radimentary.wordpress.com)

[Question] What is the evidence for productivity benefits of weightlifting?

jp2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC

56 points

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Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself

John_Maxwell20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC

70 points

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Blog Post Day (Unofficial)

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Feb 2020 19:05 UTC

49 points

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The Power of Pomodoros

elharo14 May 2013 10:36 UTC

75 points

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Simple embodied cognition hacks

curiousepic23 Mar 2011 13:24 UTC

59 points

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How I Am Productive

Peter Wildeford27 Aug 2013 13:04 UTC

64 points

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My workflow

paulfchristiano9 Dec 2012 21:16 UTC

63 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Learning strategies and the Pokemon league parable

Jsevillamol7 Aug 2018 9:37 UTC

40 points

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The Balance Between Hard Work and Exhaustion

Rossin17 Oct 2017 4:06 UTC

15 points

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Running the Stack

lionhearted26 Sep 2019 16:03 UTC

35 points

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Working Mantras

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Aug 2009 22:08 UTC

39 points

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How time tracking can help you prioritize

lynettebye16 Dec 2019 17:07 UTC

31 points

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Coding Rationally—Test Driven Development

DSimon1 Oct 2010 15:20 UTC

33 points

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Urgent & important: How (not) to do your to-do list

bfinn1 Feb 2019 17:44 UTC

42 points

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LW Study Hall − 2 Month Update

Lachouette12 May 2013 10:03 UTC

40 points

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The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaik5 May 2019 15:21 UTC

31 points

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A Day Without Defaults

katydee20 Oct 2014 8:07 UTC

49 points

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[Question] How do you know it’s time for a break?

Elizabeth16 May 2019 4:33 UTC

29 points

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Rationalist Horoscopes: Low-hanging utility generator?

AdeleneDawner18 May 2011 21:52 UTC

37 points

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What’s the best way to rest?

[deleted]15 Jun 2012 0:45 UTC

35 points

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Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC

10 points

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(www.jrmyp.net)

[Productivity] How not to use “Important // Not Urgent”

aaq17 Feb 2020 23:42 UTC

22 points

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How to reach 80% of your goals. Exactly 80%.

Stuckwork10 Oct 2020 17:33 UTC

31 points

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The Sun Room

4thWayWastrel12 Oct 2020 21:08 UTC

18 points

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In support of Yak Shaving

Elo16 Mar 2017 5:31 UTC

36 points

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[Question] Do you do weekly or daily reviews? What are they like?

benwr5 Aug 2019 1:23 UTC

23 points

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Notes on Industriousness

David_Gross3 Nov 2020 1:55 UTC

10 points

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One Year of Pomodoros

alexvermeer1 Jan 2014 21:27 UTC

34 points

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[Question] How can labour productivity growth be an indicator of automation?

Polytopos16 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC

2 points

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Working in Virtual Reality: A Review

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 23:14 UTC

116 points

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Final Version Perfected: An Underused Execution Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC

84 points

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Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC

12 points

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(oldmanrahul.com)

[Question] What are the most powerful lotuses?

ForensicOceanography20 Feb 2021 19:05 UTC

12 points

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My slack budget: 3 surprise problems per week

Raemon25 Feb 2020 21:52 UTC

58 points

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Unnecessary Boredom Bias

Mathisco20 Mar 2021 19:29 UTC

8 points

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How You Can Gain Self Control Without “Self-Control”

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC

102 points

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Reinforcing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC

50 points

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Productivity 101 For Beginners

Peter Wildeford5 Nov 2014 23:04 UTC

28 points

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Ideal Format/Frequency of Information Consumption

Avi19 Oct 2021 15:39 UTC

2 points

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[Question] Burst work or steady work?

NicholasKross22 Jun 2021 5:36 UTC

27 points

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30-ish focusing tips

Raymond D22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC

13 points

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Watching Myself Program

matto29 Nov 2021 13:44 UTC

54 points

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Ordering yourself around with an app

bfinn7 Dec 2021 0:49 UTC

9 points

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[Question] Tips for productively using short (<30min) blocks of time

just_browsing10 Jan 2022 18:05 UTC

14 points

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How Bad Is QWERTY, Really? A Review of the Literature, such as It Is

Erich_Grunewald15 Jan 2022 12:07 UTC

59 points

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

What’s wrong with Pomodoro

bfinn22 Jan 2022 16:54 UTC

11 points

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An Experiment in Habit Changing − 5 Week Retrospective

Willa2 Feb 2022 17:00 UTC

32 points

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[Question] Analog rewritable tablet

NormanPerlmutter14 Feb 2022 23:41 UTC

4 points

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How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC

234 points

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Books Worthy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC

7 points

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On Defecting On Yourself

David Udell18 Mar 2022 2:21 UTC

28 points

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Improving productivity and wellbeing

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC

9 points

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[Book review] Atomic habits

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC

3 points

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[Book review] Getting things done

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC

4 points

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[Book review] The anxiety toolkit

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC

5 points

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The glorious energy boost I’ve gotten by abstaining from coffee

Sameerishere7 May 2022 20:21 UTC

31 points

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Experience LessWrong without the Time-Wasting RabbitHole Effect

joraine26 May 2022 19:09 UTC

4 points

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Seven ways to become unstoppably agentic

Evie Cottrell26 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC

36 points

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(eviecottrell.com)

A summary of every Replacing Guilt post

Akash30 Jun 2022 0:46 UTC

26 points

3 comments10 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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