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
Adam Grant on productivity, motivation, and managing your time
How I Work
December 16, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Delegation
8
Deep work & focus
6
Sequencing tasks wrong tanks performance — taper from interesting to boring.
Rapid email responsiveness backfires by generating even more email.
Stack meetings back-to-back; scattered meetings waste 22% of surrounding time.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on productivity systems, deep resets, and building a deeper life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 14, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
Work-life balance
6
The dream of a perfect, stress-free productivity system never actually worked.
Heaven-hell imagery beats goal-setting as a foundation for lasting change.
Pair programming raises productivity through forced focus and pooled expertise.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Habit tune-up: ideas capture, leisure overload, shallow work, side hustles, and deep companies
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 10, 2020
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Negotiate a deep-to-shallow work ratio before quitting your job
Money is the only honest signal your side hustle is working
Unscheduled messaging across all processes kills organisational deep work
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep resets, saying no, and living a life of impact
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 7, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Building an email list is the wrong goal — become interesting first.
Self-criticism improves when redirected from identity to process.
Local, character-based impact beats chasing grandiose world-changing ideals.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on overload, PhD guilt, retirement, and deep procrastination
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 3, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
9
Resilience & grit
6
Treat deep work and shallow maintenance as two separate part-time jobs.
PhD students burn out by manufacturing busyness to mask a light task load.
Deep procrastination requires fixing both overload and extrinsic motivation simultaneously.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Organizing massive projects, taming IM, and the deep life canon
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 30, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Pandemic disruption creates the rare silence needed for genuine life reset
Parallel IM conversation tracks are untenable — scheduled check-ins fix this
Twitter rewires your subjective experience of the world toward constant warfare
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Theodore Roosevelt: how a sickly, grief-stricken young man forged an extraordinary life
Founders
November 30, 2020
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Repeated catastrophic loss drove Roosevelt to ferocious action, not retreat.
His father's deathbed command — 'make your body' — shaped everything he became.
Acting fearless in the face of real danger is how courage actually gets built.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Seven stoic lessons for navigating crisis and uncertainty
The Daily Stoic
November 29, 2020
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Why Epictetus's life as a slave perfected the dichotomy of control
Cato's rigid principles accidentally accelerated Rome's collapse
Memento mori isn't morbid — it sharpens focus on what's in front of you
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport answers five habit tune-up questions on focus and productivity
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 26, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Vague work labels invite distraction — specificity defeats rumination
Idea capture and task management need separate systems and review cadences
Elite athletes lose cognitive edge to social media, not physical conditioning gaps
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Finding and living your life purpose using simple frameworks
Bill Gallagher
November 25, 2020
Identity & self-belief
10
Motivation
9
Culture building
6
Two questions reveal your core purpose faster than years of reflection.
Purpose is a daily spectrum, not a switch — build a ladder to navigate it.
Company values emerge naturally when founders map their individual purposes together.
Seven books that shaped one entrepreneur's life and business
Noah Kagan
November 21, 2020
Goal setting
8
Delegation
7
Resilience & grit
5
Letting employees choose their own goals took AppSumo from $4M to $30M.
Energy, not time, is the resource that determines your best work.
One Hail Mary in ten pays off — that's enough to justify the other nine.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Habit tune-up: teaching, emotional emails, and deep work with a newborn
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 19, 2020
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Work-life balance
6
Why leaving productivity to individuals creates an overload trap
Office hours beat email for emotionally charged program management
Keystone vs toolbox: the framework for sustainable leisure habits
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Your life's purpose is something to create, not find
Bill Gallagher
November 17, 2020
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
6
Purpose is created by you, not discovered through searching
Three questions reveal direction: joy, pride, and fun
The same framework applies to your business purpose
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Purpose is created, not discovered
Bill Gallagher
November 17, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Motivation
6
Purpose is something you create, not search for externally.
Ask what you'd be proudest to say you did with your time.
The overlap of pride, joy, and fun defines your purpose.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on productivity, careers, and navigating turbulent times
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 16, 2020
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
BS jobs exist because knowledge work organization is still primitive
Agile's pull model beats email's push chaos for allocating brains
When the world spirals, turn inward hard — the deep reset