Productivity

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

Eliezer Yudkowsky

2 Jan 2011 0:15 UTC

193 points

142 comments3 min readLW link

Five Ways To Prioritize Better

lynettebye

27 Jun 2020 18:40 UTC

111 points

7 comments20 min readLW link

Be impatient

benkuhn

24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC

76 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Productivity: Working towards a summary of what we know

adamzerner

9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC

93 points

19 comments26 min readLW link

Tools for keeping focused

benkuhn

5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC

97 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

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

lynettebye

3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC

51 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

How Long Can People Usefully Work?

lynettebye

3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC

97 points

1 comment12 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth

25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC

81 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

History of the Development of Logical Induction

Scott Garrabrant

29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC

94 points

4 comments5 min readLW link

Obsidian: A Mind Mapping Markdown Editor

lifelonglearner

27 May 2020 16:26 UTC

11 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(obsidian.md)

Turns Out Interruptions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth

11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC

69 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Implementing an Idea-Management System

ryqiem

18 Oct 2019 10:48 UTC

38 points

23 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your favorite notetaking system?

Elizabeth

30 Sep 2019 6:18 UTC

33 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Does Thinking Hard Hurt Your Brain?

Raemon

29 Apr 2018 18:56 UTC

48 points

38 comments1 min readLW link

Literature Review: Distributed Teams

Elizabeth

16 Apr 2019 1:19 UTC

102 points

34 comments6 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth

6 May 2019 22:35 UTC

48 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Automatically Turning Off Computer at Night

Raemon

15 Jul 2020 20:42 UTC

17 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Engineering Positive Social Feedback

sarahconstantin

5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC

262 points

35 comments2 min readLW link

Attention is your scarcest resource

benkuhn

30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC

73 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Strategies of Personal Growth

Raemon

28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC

122 points

27 comments4 min readLW link 1 nomination

Feature Request: Self-imposed Time Restrictions

adamzerner

15 May 2019 22:35 UTC

22 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Does Goal Setting Work?

Swimmer963

16 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC

35 points

21 comments11 min readLW link

Zooming your mind in and out

John_Maxwell

6 Jul 2015 12:30 UTC

8 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Productivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

John_Maxwell

21 Aug 2014 5:05 UTC

13 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

Managing one’s memory effectively

John_Maxwell

6 Jun 2014 17:39 UTC

14 points

18 comments4 min readLW link

Personal information management

John_Maxwell

11 Sep 2012 11:40 UTC

18 points

31 comments3 min readLW link

Productivity tips for those low on motivation

John_Maxwell

6 Mar 2012 2:41 UTC

7 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Being Rational and Being Productive: Similar Core Skills?

John_Maxwell

28 Dec 2010 10:11 UTC

18 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

The Math of When to Self-Improve

John_Maxwell

15 May 2010 20:35 UTC

6 points

72 comments2 min readLW link

Travel Through Time to Increase Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeast

23 Aug 2015 1:32 UTC

41 points

13 comments10 min readLW link

Habitual Productivity

So8res

9 Jan 2014 6:44 UTC

50 points

34 comments6 min readLW link

The mechanics of my recent productivity

So8res

9 Jan 2014 2:30 UTC

129 points

47 comments9 min readLW link

Deregulating Distraction, Moving Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8res

12 Jan 2014 3:21 UTC

67 points

23 comments8 min readLW link

How I use Google Forms in my Workflow

Harri Besceli

26 Jul 2020 12:17 UTC

31 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Paper Trauma

Qiaochu_Yuan

31 Jan 2018 22:05 UTC

134 points

63 comments1 min readLW link

What is operations?

Swimmer963

26 Sep 2019 14:16 UTC

100 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

The Monthly Newsletter as Thinking Tool

moridinamael

2 Feb 2018 16:42 UTC

92 points

15 comments3 min readLW link

How Much is Your Time Worth?

lynettebye

2 Sep 2019 6:19 UTC

73 points

16 comments6 min readLW link

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

Mark Xu

16 May 2020 16:53 UTC

88 points

116 comments1 min readLW link

Announcing the Complice Less Wrong Study Hall

MalcolmOcean

2 Mar 2015 23:37 UTC

58 points

19 comments2 min readLW link

High Variance Productivity Advice

lynettebye

1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

70 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Chaotic Inversion

Eliezer Yudkowsky

29 Nov 2008 10:57 UTC

60 points

66 comments1 min readLW link

The Solitaire Principle: Game Theory for One

alkjash

17 Jan 2018 0:14 UTC

56 points

8 comments9 min readLW link

(radimentary.wordpress.com)

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

2 Jun 2019 19:17 UTC

55 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Applying Behavioral Psychology on Myself

John_Maxwell

20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC

53 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Blog Post Day (Unofficial)

Daniel Kokotajlo

18 Feb 2020 19:05 UTC

46 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Co-Working Collaboration to Combat Akrasia

ShannonFriedman

9 Mar 2013 18:17 UTC

54 points

99 comments2 min readLW link

The Power of Pomodoros

elharo

14 May 2013 10:36 UTC

50 points

44 comments3 min readLW link

Simple embodied cognition hacks

curiousepic

23 Mar 2011 13:24 UTC

46 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

How I Am Productive

peter_hurford

27 Aug 2013 13:04 UTC

55 points

34 comments14 min readLW link

My workflow

paulfchristiano

9 Dec 2012 21:16 UTC

43 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Learning strategies and the Pokemon league parable

Jsevillamol

7 Aug 2018 9:37 UTC

43 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

The Balance Between Hard Work and Exhaustion

Rossin

17 Oct 2017 4:06 UTC

40 points

7 comments3 min readLW link