Mindset
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Content whose primary subject is how an individual manages their own psychology, focus, habits, or relationship with work. The unit of change is the *person themselves*, not their business or team.
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Productivity & habits
Podcast
Practical habit tune-up: time blocking, phone use, and the two-role work model
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 4, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Treat admin and deep work as two separate part-time jobs.
Physical separation from your phone beats any app restriction.
A plain text 'working memory' file clears inboxes faster than any system.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
Focus as a Learnable Habit: Systems Over Willpower
Bill Gallagher
February 3, 2021
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
Focus is learnable via purpose, process, and progress — not willpower.
Saying no to almost everything is the top system of high performers.
Setbacks reframed as happening for you, not to you, unlock growth.
How to make better decisions by dismantling hidden cognitive biases
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 2, 2021
Goal setting
8
Communication
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Good outcomes don't mean good decisions — luck distorts everything
Asynchronous independent elicitation beats group meetings for decisions
Quitting and grit are complements; calibrate between them, don't pick one
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Bullet journaling vs Trello: building a hybrid productivity system
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 28, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Why your daily time blocking probably takes twice as long as it should
Analog vs digital task tools: match complexity to the right system
Difficulty in creative work is a signal to continue, not stop
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How to master your emotions with Sam Harris
Masters of Scale
January 26, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Your mind is the toolbox — every leadership tool depends on it.
Meditation trains you to witness thoughts without being controlled by them.
Failing fast and beginning again are the same mental skill.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Writing as a clarity tool: how expressive writing unlocks focus and purpose
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
January 26, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Identity & self-belief
6
20 minutes of writing returns hours by clarifying what actually matters.
Writer's block is life block — stuck on the page means stuck in life.
Start with 30 seconds; the habit builds itself once you feel the benefit.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
The emotional roller coaster of being a CEO and how to ride it
Cameron Herold
January 26, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Management
6
Entrepreneurial traits are clinically identical to bipolar disorder symptoms
Each roller coaster stage demands different actions — and forbids others
Crisis of meaning requires unplugging, not pushing through
Work-life balance
Podcast
Life profitability: building a business that serves your life
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 26, 2021
Work-life balance
9
Founder interviews
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Every business decision has a life cost most founders never account for
Burnout hits when meaning drains from structures you've heavily invested in
No universal blueprint exists — your values define your success metrics
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Productivity is good — if you optimise the function, not the input
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 25, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Work-life balance
8
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity critics attack overwork, not the real goal: better conversion of effort to output.
Career passion follows competence — rare skills are the currency that buys autonomy.
Interview experts for their story, not their advice, to avoid the colour folder effect.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building a big brand voice: the lemon.io copywriting case study
Joanna Wiebe
January 22, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Long-term planning
7
Voice is a differentiation tool when competitors all sound the same.
Write with customer language first; inject personality only during editing.
Keep CTAs and guarantees clear — voice decorates, never obscures meaning.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport's book research system and habits for deep, boring work
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 21, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Four concrete tactics for tolerating boring-but-necessary focused work
Inside Cal Newport's actual Evernote and file system for book research
Why adults returning to university have a hidden advantage over younger students
How to minimize meetings, master time blocking, and design a deeper life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 18, 2021
Time management
9
Deep work & focus
8
Productivity & habits
8
Fix the broken process behind meetings, not the meetings themselves.
Dual-use time blocks unlock hidden productivity in waiting and desk time.
A phantom part-time schedule turns an underdemanding job into a deeper life.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Managing inbox overload: email, time blocking, and digital minimalism
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 14, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Productivity & habits
6
Your inbox is a broken knowledge system — redesign the workflows instead
10-minute productivity chunks ignore psychology and cause burnout
Digital declutter: one month off, then rebuild from the bottom up
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep work, digital minimalism, and workflow design
How I Work
January 13, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Busyness is not productivity — deep work is what actually creates value
Habit tweaks can't fix a workflow built on constant unstructured communication
Solitude deprivation from endless screen use quietly destroys cognition and wellbeing
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Lessons from YC top founders: authenticity, focus, and culture
Y Combinator
January 12, 2021
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
7
Culture building
6
Build on a problem you personally feel — or you'll quit
Focus on one metric weekly; ignore everything else
Define culture and values before you think you need to