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Productivity

TagLast edit: 4 Sep 2025 22:07 UTC by August Morley

Productivity in the context of this tag is the qualitative ability to utilize available time most effectively to accomplish a short-term goal, typically on the order of a few hours to a week in duration. Productivity is often defined in terms of overcoming barriers to work such as procrastination, akrasia, or distraction.

Posts marked with this tag address how to define and quantify productivity or discuss methods for maximizing productivity.

See Also

Mean­ingful Rest

Neel Nanda29 Aug 2020 15:50 UTC
77 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
370 points
162 comments3 min readLW link

Third Time: a bet­ter way to work

bfinn7 Jan 2022 21:15 UTC
135 points
76 comments8 min readLW link

I hired 5 peo­ple to sit be­hind me and make me pro­duc­tive for a month

Simon Berens5 Feb 2023 1:19 UTC
253 points
83 comments10 min readLW link
(www.simonberens.com)

Why Pro­duc­tivity Sys­tems Don’t Stick

Matt Goldenberg16 Jan 2021 17:45 UTC
62 points
22 comments3 min readLW link

The Good Try Rule

DirectedEvolution27 Dec 2020 2:38 UTC
56 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity: Work­ing to­wards a sum­mary of what we know

Adam Zerner9 Nov 2017 22:04 UTC
87 points
22 comments26 min readLW link

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

just_browsing7 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC
97 points
24 comments1 min readLW link

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

HarryO23 Aug 2021 7:18 UTC
43 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

How to Search Mul­ti­ple Web­sites Quickly

Nicholas Kross22 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Co-Work­ing Col­lab­o­ra­tion to Com­bat Akrasia

ShannonFriedman9 Mar 2013 18:17 UTC
76 points
99 comments2 min readLW link

Notes on Industriousness

David Gross3 Nov 2020 1:55 UTC
12 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity Notes I

matto15 Feb 2022 13:08 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Tools for keep­ing focused

benkuhn5 Aug 2020 2:10 UTC
131 points
26 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

One Day Sooner

Screwtape2 Nov 2023 19:00 UTC
133 points
8 comments8 min readLW link1 review

At­ten­tion is your scarcest resource

benkuhn30 Jul 2020 1:00 UTC
99 points
2 comments4 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Five Ways To Pri­ori­tize Better

lynettebye27 Jun 2020 18:40 UTC
137 points
7 comments20 min readLW link1 review

Be impatient

benkuhn24 Jul 2020 1:30 UTC
88 points
5 comments7 min readLW link
(www.benkuhn.net)

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

Elizabeth6 May 2019 22:35 UTC
48 points
17 comments1 min readLW link

Sa­bien on “work-life” balance

Rob Bensinger20 May 2021 18:33 UTC
57 points
20 comments1 min readLW link

The Com­pre­hen­sion Curve

DirectedEvolution22 Feb 2021 22:51 UTC
36 points
8 comments10 min readLW link

Does Think­ing Hard Hurt Your Brain?

Raemon29 Apr 2018 18:56 UTC
22 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Mediums Over­power Messages

lsusr20 Oct 2019 5:46 UTC
55 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

How to make er­rands fun

dominicq17 Jun 2021 11:27 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Chain Breaking

Mark Xu29 Dec 2020 1:06 UTC
23 points
6 comments10 min readLW link
(markxu.com)

On Sys­tems—Liv­ing a life of zero willpower

Neel Nanda16 Aug 2020 16:44 UTC
42 points
9 comments13 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Manag­ing one’s mem­ory effectively

John_Maxwell6 Jun 2014 17:39 UTC
27 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing the Im­pact of Early-2025 AI on Ex­pe­rienced Open-Source Devel­oper Productivity

habryka11 Jul 2025 0:23 UTC
97 points
43 comments6 min readLW link
(metr.org)

How to Teach Your Brain to Hate Procrastination

10xyz21 Oct 2024 20:12 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Do, Then Think

George3d623 Feb 2022 13:40 UTC
55 points
9 comments5 min readLW link
(www.epistem.ink)

Laz­i­ness death spirals

PatrickDFarley19 Sep 2024 15:58 UTC
292 points
40 comments8 min readLW link

GPT-4 for per­sonal pro­duc­tivity: on­line dis­trac­tion blocker

Sergii26 Sep 2023 17:41 UTC
66 points
13 comments2 min readLW link
(grgv.xyz)

Be­ing Pro­duc­tive With Chronic Health Con­di­tions

lynettebye5 Nov 2020 0:22 UTC
98 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

Ac­countabil­ity Bud­dies: Why you might want one (+ Database to find one!)

Samuel Nellessen23 Oct 2022 16:25 UTC
10 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

A Guide for Productivity

Marius Hobbhahn23 Jul 2021 7:03 UTC
39 points
8 comments41 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth25 Jun 2019 23:00 UTC
81 points
9 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 1

DaystarEld4 Jul 2022 18:51 UTC
55 points
10 comments14 min readLW link
(daystareld.com)

Notes from Dopamine Detoxing

Alice Blair20 May 2025 23:43 UTC
15 points
4 comments9 min readLW link

Noise Pol­lu­tion and Cognition

chw5 Apr 2021 21:26 UTC
9 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Stop press­ing the Try Harder button

Neel Nanda5 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
45 points
5 comments3 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

A cou­ple pro­duc­tivity tips for overthinkers

Steven Byrnes20 Apr 2024 16:05 UTC
79 points
13 comments4 min readLW link

Ha­bit­ual Productivity

So8res9 Jan 2014 6:44 UTC
92 points
36 comments6 min readLW link

Re­search pro­duc­tivity tip: “Solve The Whole Prob­lem Day”

Steven Byrnes27 Aug 2021 13:05 UTC
50 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

Ex­treme web­site and app blocking

tbenthompson20 Nov 2023 3:53 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(tbenthompson.com)

The Math of When to Self-Improve

John_Maxwell15 May 2010 20:35 UTC
14 points
72 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can we mea­sure cre­ativity?

Elizabeth29 Jun 2019 22:30 UTC
32 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

How much I’m pay­ing for AI pro­duc­tivity soft­ware (and the fu­ture of AI use)

jacquesthibs11 Oct 2024 17:11 UTC
59 points
18 comments8 min readLW link
(jacquesthibodeau.com)

Unit Test Everything

DirectedEvolution29 Sep 2022 18:12 UTC
30 points
0 comments8 min readLW link

Would most peo­ple benefit from be­ing less co­er­cive to them­selves?

Matt Goldenberg21 Jan 2021 14:24 UTC
28 points
8 comments4 min readLW link

His­tory of the Devel­op­ment of Log­i­cal Induction

Scott Garrabrant29 Aug 2018 3:15 UTC
103 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

In Defence of Op­ti­miz­ing Rou­tine Tasks

leogao9 Nov 2021 5:09 UTC
47 points
6 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Notic­ing Wasted Motion

lynettebye17 Sep 2020 2:30 UTC
21 points
5 comments3 min readLW link

Ta­boo “pro­cras­ti­na­tion”

Neil 12 Dec 2023 21:33 UTC
19 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

How much slower is re­mote work?

jsteinhardt8 Oct 2021 2:00 UTC
108 points
11 comments3 min readLW link
(bounded-regret.ghost.io)

Focus

jefftk15 Sep 2019 15:10 UTC
33 points
7 comments4 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How have you be­come more hard-work­ing?

Chi Nguyen25 Sep 2023 12:37 UTC
82 points
42 comments1 min readLW link

Turns Out In­ter­rup­tions Are Bad, Who Knew?

Elizabeth11 Jun 2020 23:10 UTC
74 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How did you in­te­grate voice-to-text AI into your work­flow?

ChristianKl20 Nov 2023 12:01 UTC
28 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

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

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:36 UTC
54 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

The Cog­ni­tive Costs to Do­ing Things

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)2 May 2011 9:13 UTC
49 points
21 comments4 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity tips for those low on motivation

John_Maxwell6 Mar 2012 2:41 UTC
10 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

A Quick Look At 20% Time

Elizabeth4 Feb 2022 22:10 UTC
86 points
8 comments4 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Im­ple­ment­ing an Idea-Man­age­ment System

MartinB18 Oct 2019 10:48 UTC
41 points
23 comments4 min readLW link

How to Make Easy De­ci­sions

lynettebye7 Nov 2022 13:17 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

Devel­oper ex­pe­rience for the motivation

Adam Zerner16 Nov 2022 7:12 UTC
49 points
7 comments4 min readLW link

Ob­sidian: A Mind Map­ping Mark­down Editor

lifelonglearner27 May 2020 16:26 UTC
12 points
15 comments1 min readLW link
(obsidian.md)

How to Be­come a Magician

Nicole Dieker21 Jan 2022 18:12 UTC
18 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] How do you finish your tasks faster?

Cipolla21 Aug 2024 20:01 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

“Cheat to Win”: Eng­ineer­ing Pos­i­tive So­cial Feedback

sarahconstantin5 Feb 2018 23:16 UTC
190 points
36 comments2 min readLW link

Fea­ture Re­quest: Self-im­posed Time Restrictions

Adam Zerner15 May 2019 22:35 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

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
0 comments4 min readLW link

Strate­gies for Per­sonal Growth

Raemon28 Jul 2018 18:27 UTC
153 points
27 comments4 min readLW link

Bite Sized Tasks

Johannes C. Mayer4 Mar 2023 3:31 UTC
18 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

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

emily.fan7 Sep 2021 13:30 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Is Build­ing Good Note-Tak­ing Soft­ware an AGI-Com­plete Prob­lem?

Thane Ruthenis26 May 2025 18:26 UTC
26 points
13 comments7 min readLW link

Me­taPrompt: a tool for tel­ling your­self what to do.

abramdemski16 Mar 2021 20:49 UTC
66 points
12 comments15 min readLW link

Pro­duc­tivity tool: race!

wwa16 Jan 2014 21:53 UTC
43 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Be­ing Ra­tional and Be­ing Pro­duc­tive: Similar Core Skills?

John_Maxwell28 Dec 2010 10:11 UTC
27 points
13 comments3 min readLW link

Does Goal Set­ting Work?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 16 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC
57 points
22 comments11 min readLW link

Per­sonal in­for­ma­tion management

John_Maxwell11 Sep 2012 11:40 UTC
27 points
31 comments3 min readLW link

Zoom­ing your mind in and out

John_Maxwell6 Jul 2015 12:30 UTC
17 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What’s your fa­vorite note­tak­ing sys­tem?

Elizabeth30 Sep 2019 6:18 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

11 heuris­tics for choos­ing (al­ign­ment) re­search projects

27 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC
50 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

Loom: Why and How to use it

brook26 Jan 2023 14:34 UTC
2 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

One Year of Pomodoros

Alex_Altair31 Dec 2020 4:42 UTC
56 points
7 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] Have you no­ticed costs of be­ing an­ti­ci­pa­tory?

Jack R14 Feb 2022 19:15 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Au­to­mat­i­cally Turn­ing Off Com­puter at Night

Raemon15 Jul 2020 20:42 UTC
19 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Ex­per­i­ment: Separate High/​Low Pro­duc­tive Hours

Raemon8 Feb 2018 4:10 UTC
15 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

My Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

moridinamael22 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

A game of mattering

KatjaGrace23 Sep 2022 2:30 UTC
64 points
7 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Travel Through Time to In­crease Your Effectiveness

tanagrabeast23 Aug 2015 1:32 UTC
67 points
13 comments10 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing The ‘From Big Ideas To Real-World Re­sults’: A Series for Effec­tive Per­sonal Development

Paul Rohde14 Dec 2023 18:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(blog.paul-rohde.com)

Trig­ger-based rapid checklists

VipulNaik26 Oct 2022 4:05 UTC
45 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Mis­cel­la­neous thoughts on han­dling a stress­ful life

VipulNaik5 Feb 2022 17:48 UTC
19 points
0 comments11 min readLW link

Liter­a­ture Re­view: Distributed Teams

Elizabeth16 Apr 2019 1:19 UTC
106 points
37 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Pro­duc­tivity thoughts from Matt Fallshaw

John_Maxwell21 Aug 2014 5:05 UTC
19 points
3 comments2 min readLW link

A game of mattering

KatjaGrace12 Oct 2022 8:50 UTC
28 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Mov­ing to­wards a ques­tion-based plan­ning frame­work, in­stead of task lists

casualphysicsenjoyer9 May 2025 12:18 UTC
4 points
1 comment8 min readLW link
(substack.com)

Why I am no longer driven

dominicq16 Nov 2021 20:43 UTC
71 points
16 comments4 min readLW link

How Long Can Peo­ple Use­fully Work?

lynettebye3 Apr 2020 21:35 UTC
155 points
8 comments12 min readLW link1 review

Paper Trauma

Qiaochu_Yuan31 Jan 2018 22:05 UTC
77 points
63 comments1 min readLW link

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

Elizabeth16 May 2019 4:33 UTC
30 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Hard work is irritating

Oldmanrahul17 Dec 2020 1:04 UTC
13 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(oldmanrahul.com)

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

just_browsing10 Jan 2022 18:05 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

My best sys­tem yet: text-based pro­ject management

jt2 May 2023 17:44 UTC
6 points
8 comments5 min readLW link

Elas­tic Pro­duc­tivity Tools

Simon Berens19 Nov 2022 21:59 UTC
76 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(simonberens.me)

Feel­ing Progress as Motivation

Sable28 Mar 2023 9:11 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(affablyevil.substack.com)

[Question] What are the most pow­er­ful lo­tuses?

ForensicOceanography20 Feb 2021 19:05 UTC
12 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Learn­ing strate­gies and the Poke­mon league parable

Jsevillamol7 Aug 2018 9:37 UTC
40 points
5 comments4 min readLW link

How to de­velop a pho­to­graphic mem­ory 1/​3

PhilosophicalSoul28 Dec 2023 13:26 UTC
34 points
6 comments14 min readLW link

One Year of Pomodoros

alexvermeer1 Jan 2014 21:27 UTC
34 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

The Case for Silent Creation in a World Ad­dicted to Applause

A Voice That Doesn’t Sleep.31 Jul 2025 2:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply­ing Be­hav­ioral Psy­chol­ogy on Myself

John_Maxwell20 Jun 2010 6:25 UTC
73 points
39 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to make to-do lists (and to get things done)?

TeaTieAndHat12 Oct 2023 14:26 UTC
9 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Work­ing Mantras

Eliezer Yudkowsky24 Aug 2009 22:08 UTC
49 points
59 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How to bet on my­self? From ex­pec­ta­tions to ro­bust goals

P. João29 Aug 2025 18:33 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

Col­lege Ad­vice For Peo­ple Like Me

henryj12 Apr 2025 14:36 UTC
50 points
5 comments17 min readLW link
(www.henryjosephson.com)

[Book re­view] Get­ting things done

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Dereg­u­lat­ing Dis­trac­tion, Mov­ing Towards the Goal, and Level Hopping

So8res12 Jan 2014 3:21 UTC
103 points
25 comments8 min readLW link

Work as meditation

pchvykov13 May 2025 12:02 UTC
25 points
3 comments7 min readLW link

High Var­i­ance Pro­duc­tivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC
87 points
6 comments8 min readLW link

30-ish fo­cus­ing tips

Raymond Douglas22 Oct 2021 19:38 UTC
22 points
4 comments6 min readLW link

Sim­ple em­bod­ied cog­ni­tion hacks

curiousepic23 Mar 2011 13:24 UTC
59 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

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

Bart Bussmann10 Oct 2020 17:33 UTC
36 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

How to de­velop a pho­to­graphic mem­ory 3/​3

PhilosophicalSoul8 Feb 2024 9:22 UTC
7 points
2 comments18 min readLW link

How time track­ing can help you prioritize

lynettebye16 Dec 2019 17:07 UTC
35 points
2 comments5 min readLW link

Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

Ra­tion­al­ist Horo­scopes: Low-hang­ing util­ity gen­er­a­tor?

AdeleneDawner18 May 2011 21:52 UTC
37 points
81 comments2 min readLW link

[Book re­view] The anx­iety toolkit

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Order­ing your­self around with an app

bfinn7 Dec 2021 0:49 UTC
9 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

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

aaq17 Feb 2020 23:42 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Chaotic Inversion

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2008 10:57 UTC
108 points
69 comments1 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing pro­duc­tivity and wellbeing

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC
12 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

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

benwr5 Aug 2019 1:23 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

The­ory of cul­ture as waste.

Laureana Bonaparte15 Aug 2025 17:34 UTC
−3 points
15 comments2 min readLW link

Cod­ing Ra­tion­ally—Test Driven Development

DSimon1 Oct 2010 15:20 UTC
33 points
84 comments7 min readLW link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for Re­cent Posts/​Se­quences on In­stru­men­tal Ra­tion­al­ity?

Benjamin Hendricks26 Jan 2025 0:41 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Burst work or steady work?

Nicholas Kross22 Jun 2021 5:36 UTC
27 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

A sum­mary of ev­ery Re­plac­ing Guilt post

Orpheus1630 Jun 2022 0:46 UTC
35 points
3 comments10 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

A Reflec­tion on Richard Ham­ming’s “You and Your Re­search”: Striv­ing for Greatness

aysajan4 Jun 2024 20:07 UTC
8 points
5 comments21 min readLW link
(www.aysajaneziz.com)

Re­in­forc­ing Habits

lynettebye21 Jun 2021 10:41 UTC
50 points
4 comments4 min readLW link

On Defect­ing On Yourself

David Udell18 Mar 2022 2:21 UTC
37 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

My scorched-earth policy on New Year’s resolutions

PatrickDFarley29 Dec 2022 14:45 UTC
29 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

The Balance Between Hard Work and Exhaustion

Rossin17 Oct 2017 4:06 UTC
15 points
7 comments3 min readLW link

Blog Post Day (Unoffi­cial)

Daniel Kokotajlo18 Feb 2020 19:05 UTC
49 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

A tool for search­ing ra­tio­nal­ist & EA webs

Daniel_Friedrich29 Sep 2023 15:23 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(ratsearch.blogspot.com)

Pro­duc­tivity 101 For Beginners

Peter Wildeford5 Nov 2014 23:04 UTC
30 points
34 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] What is the re­search speed mul­ti­plier of the most ad­vanced cur­rent LLMs?

wunan21 Feb 2024 12:39 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Gam­ify life from BayesianMind

P. João16 Apr 2025 16:17 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Write to Es­cape Your De­fault Setting

kupajo23 May 2025 16:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link
(kupajo.com)

To-do waves

Paweł Sysiak16 Jul 2022 1:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

If we can ed­u­cate AIs, why not ap­ply that ed­u­ca­tion to peo­ple? - A Si­mu­la­tion with Claude

P. João28 Aug 2025 16:37 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readLW link

My slack bud­get: 3 sur­prise prob­lems per week

Raemon25 Feb 2020 21:52 UTC
69 points
10 comments3 min readLW link1 review

How to Beat Procrastination

lukeprog5 Feb 2011 18:49 UTC
278 points
163 comments15 min readLW link

An­nounc­ing the Com­plice Less Wrong Study Hall

MalcolmOcean2 Mar 2015 23:37 UTC
75 points
19 comments2 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 2

DaystarEld16 May 2023 16:22 UTC
24 points
0 comments18 min readLW link
(daystareld.com)

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

spencerg24 Mar 2021 23:38 UTC
109 points
41 comments23 min readLW link

Work­ing in Vir­tual Real­ity: A Review

ozziegooen20 Nov 2020 23:14 UTC
140 points
42 comments6 min readLW link

How Much is Your Time Worth?

lynettebye2 Sep 2019 6:19 UTC
79 points
22 comments6 min readLW link1 review

Per­sonal predictions

Daniele De Nuntiis4 Feb 2024 3:59 UTC
2 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Pro­ce­du­ral Ex­ec­u­tive Func­tion, Part 3

DaystarEld22 May 2024 11:58 UTC
21 points
4 comments23 min readLW link

How I use Google Forms in my Workflow

Harri Besceli26 Jul 2020 12:17 UTC
34 points
4 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] I’m con­sis­tently over­whelmed by ba­sic obli­ga­tions. Are there any paradigm shifts or other ra­tio­nal­ity-based tips that would be helpful?

Benjamin Hendricks21 Jul 2023 21:10 UTC
72 points
42 comments2 min readLW link

What’s the best way to rest?

[deleted]15 Jun 2012 0:45 UTC
36 points
39 comments1 min readLW link

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
15 points
3 comments3 min readLW link

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

Erich_Grunewald15 Jan 2022 12:07 UTC
61 points
12 comments15 min readLW link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Fi­nal Ver­sion Perfected: An Un­derused Ex­e­cu­tion Algorithm

willbradshaw27 Nov 2020 10:43 UTC
103 points
34 comments7 min readLW link

The why and how of daily updates

VipulNaik5 May 2019 15:21 UTC
33 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

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

bfinn1 Feb 2019 17:44 UTC
51 points
20 comments13 min readLW link

[Book re­view] Atomic habits

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Time is not the bot­tle­neck (on mak­ing progress think­ing about difficult things)

kman12 Sep 2022 20:45 UTC
30 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

You Are Mov­ing Out Of Your Refer­ence Class

Ihor Kendiukhov5 Aug 2025 0:20 UTC
24 points
1 comment8 min readLW link

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

Polytopos16 Nov 2020 21:16 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readLW link

What fills a vac­uum?

Logan Kieller22 Jan 2023 19:25 UTC
15 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

Your Strat­egy Roadmap: Ex­pert Tips + Live Training

Deena Englander3 Jun 2025 21:10 UTC
−4 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Seven ways to be­come un­stop­pably agentic

Evie Cottrell26 Jun 2022 17:39 UTC
66 points
16 comments8 min readLW link

Un­nec­es­sary Bore­dom Bias

Mathisco20 Mar 2021 19:29 UTC
8 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

How I Am Productive

Peter Wildeford27 Aug 2013 13:04 UTC
74 points
35 comments14 min readLW link

How to de­velop a pho­to­graphic mem­ory 2/​3

PhilosophicalSoul30 Dec 2023 20:18 UTC
28 points
7 comments12 min readLW link

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