#focus (11 links)
- Epictetus Ran a Better Productivity System Than Any App You’ve Bought joanwestenberg.com
You could call this the Jurisdiction Method. Before you decide to track something, ask: whose responsibility is this? If it’s yours, take action. If it belongs to someone else, you might influence it, but you don’t own it, and you shouldn’t let it take over your attention just because you’re tracking it.
- the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription thoughts.hmmz.org
I can't afford to maintain any of them, not in terms of time, commitment, belief, attention or willingness to spend on tokens.
- Flow state: Why fragmented thinking is worse than any interruption blog.stackblitz.com
- List one task, do it, cross it out | Oliver Burkeman oliverburkeman.com
Via Popular.
So everyone, in the first decade of the 2000s, said: I turned off my notifications. I do one thing at a time. But what we didn’t realize is that even when you jump over to check the inbox and come right back, it can be just as damaging as multitasking. When you looked at that email inbox for 15 seconds, you initiated a cascade of So if you have to work on something that’s cognitively demanding, the rule has to be zero context shifts during that period. Treat it like a dentist appointment. You can’t check your email when you’re having a cavity filled.
- When Do Elements Take The Focus? sitepoint.com
- Check you're wearing trousers first robertheaton.com
Simple solutions are almost always quickest, easiest and most effective. Maybe sometimes it does turn out that they aren’t enough and you do in fact need to do something hard. But if people in the street keep giving you funny looks, make sure you’re wearing trousers before you start worrying about what colour they are.
If the world overwhelms you with its constant production of useless crap which you filter more and more to things that only interest you can I calmly suggest that you just create things that you like and cut out the rest of the world as a middle-man to your happiness?
- How to Lose Time and Money paulgraham.com
I've definitely had days when I might as well have sat in front of a TV all day—days at the end of which, if I asked myself what I got done that day, the answer would have been: basically, nothing. I feel bad after these days too, but nothing like as bad as I'd feel if I spent the whole day on the sofa watching TV. If I spent a whole day watching TV I'd feel like I was descending into perdition. But the same alarms don't go off on the days when I get nothing done, because I'm doing stuff that seems, superficially, like real work. Dealing with email, for example. You do it sitting at a desk. It's not fun. So it must be work.
- Isolator willmore.eu
When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.