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James Clear
282 articles · jamesclear.comMy 2019 Annual ReviewHappy 1st Birthday, Atomic Habits! (plus 3 gifts for you…)The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No30 One-Sentence Stories From People Who Have Built Better HabitsThe Ultimate Habit Tracker Guide: Why and How to Track Your HabitsThe Surprising Benefits of Journaling One Sentence Every DayMy 2018 Annual ReviewHow to Make Your Future Habits EasyThe Habits Scorecard: Use This Simple Exercise to Discover Which Habits You Should ChangeWhen the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being EffectiveHow to Automate a Habit and Never Think About It AgainAbsolute Success is Luck. Relative Success is Hard Work.Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds7 Ways to Retain More of Every Book You ReadIntroducing Atomic HabitsMy 2017 Annual ReviewFirst Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for YourselfMental Models: How to Train Your Brain to Think in New WaysEntropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More ComplicatedInversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught YouA Margin of Safety: How to Thrive in the Age of UncertaintyThe 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the RewardsThe Paradox of Behavior ChangeThe Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate PracticeThe Myth and Magic of Deliberate PracticeMy 2016 Annual ReviewThe 10 Best Articles of 2016The Shadow Side of GreatnessHow Innovative Ideas AriseFor a More Creative Brain Follow These 5 StepsHow to Create a Chain Reaction of Good HabitsThe Scientific Argument for Mastering One Thing at a TimeAll Models Are Wrong, Some Are UsefulMotivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.The Goldilocks Rule: How to Stay Motivated in Life and BusinessMy 2016 Integrity ReportThe Downside of Work-Life BalanceThe 3 Stages of Failure in Life and Work (And How to Fix Them)The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About ItThe Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful WorkMake Your Life Better by Saying Thank You in These 7 SituationsHow to Use Military Strategy to Build Better HabitsHow to Spot a Common Mental Error That Leads to Misguided ThinkingThe Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do and What to Do About ItMy 2015 Annual ReviewThe 10 Best Articles of 2015The Value of Time: How Much is Your Time Really Worth?How to Master the Invisible Hand That Shapes Our LivesOne Research-Backed Way to Effectively Manage Your Stressful and Busy ScheduleThe Diderot Effect: Why We Want Things We Don’t Need — And What to Do About ItCreativity Is a Process, Not an EventScott Dinsmore: A TributeI’m No Longer Writing Twice Per Week. Here’s Why.5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good DecisionsHow to Be Happy When Everything Goes WrongThis Zen Concept Will Help You Stop Being a Slave to Old BeliefsWhy Old Ideas Are a Secret WeaponOverrated vs. Underrated: Common Beliefs We Get WrongIt’s Not Just About What You Say, It’s About How You LiveWorld Chess Champion Garry Kasparov on How to Build ConfidenceHow Experts Figure What to Focus OnThe Chemistry of Building Better HabitsAugust Reading List: 5 Good Books to Read This MonthHow to Stop Lying to Ourselves: A Call for Self-AwarenessIf Nothing Changes, Nothing Is Going to ChangeOlympic Medalist Dick Fosbury and the Power of Being UnconventionalThe Proven, Reasonable and Totally Unsexy Secret to SuccessWarren Buffett’s “20 Slot” Rule: How to Simplify Your Life and Maximize Your ResultsThe 15-Minute Routine Anthony Trollope Used to Write 40+ BooksThe Ivy Lee Method: The Daily Routine Experts Recommend for Peak ProductivityWhat Happens When You Believe You’re Taking SteroidsTwo Harvard Professors Reveal One Reason Our Brains Love to ProcrastinateHow to Stop Procrastinating and Boost Your Willpower by Using “Temptation Bundling”Lessons From a Vexillonaire: Creativity, Simplicity, and the Carefully Constrained LifeFast Growth is OverratedFamous Biologist Louis Agassiz on the Usefulness of Learning Through ObservationHow to Fall in Love With Boredom and Unlock Your Mental ToughnessWhat I Do When I Feel Like Giving UpInside the Mind of a Mad ScientistPat Riley on the Remarkable Power of Getting 1% BetterYou’re Not Ready for MarriageHow to Optimize Your Daily DecisionsThe More We Limit Ourselves, the More Resourceful We BecomeHow to Declutter Your Mind and Unleash Your Willpower by Using Bright-Line RulesHow to Stick With Good Habits Every Day by Using the “Paper Clip Strategy”April Reading List: 3 Good Books to Read This MonthThe 2 Types of Growth: Which One of These Growth Curves Are You Following?Do More of What Already WorksUse This Simple Daily Habit to Add More Gratitude to Your LifeMy 2015 Integrity ReportThe Goal is Not the Point5 Lessons on Being WrongZanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus From a Legendary Samurai ArcherStop Thinking and Start Doing: The Power of Practicing MoreThe One Word That Drives Senseless and Irrational HabitsThe Myth of Multitasking: Why Fewer Priorities Leads to Better WorkThe 5 Triggers That Make New Habits StickBob Mathias on How to Master the Art of Self-ConfidenceAlbert Einstein’s Incredible Work EthicFear vs. AmbitionWhy Stores Place Candy by the Checkout Counter (And Why New Habits Fail)Vince Lombardi on the Hidden Power of Mastering the Fundamentals6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create BeautyJoseph Brodsky Explains Perfectly How to Deal With Critics and Detractors in Your LifeSurprising Lessons From the Children Who Survived a Famine During the Deadliest War in HistoryNever Check Email Before Noon (And Other Thoughts on Doing Your Best Work)5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to FailMy 2014 Annual ReviewThe 10 Best Articles of 2014What I Do When it Feels Like My Work Isn’t Good EnoughAvoid the Second MistakeConstraints Make You Better: Why the Right Limitations Boost PerformanceTo Make Big Gains, Avoid Tiny LossesA Different Way of Thinking About Productivity10 Lessons Learned from Squatting 400 PoundsMartha Graham on the Hidden Danger of Comparing Yourself to OthersHow Experts Practice Better Than the RestMinimalism, Success, and the Curious Writing Habit of George R.R. MartinHacking the Workout Journal: How to Track Your Workouts in the Simplest, Most Effective Way PossibleSisu: How to Develop Mental Toughness in the Face of AdversityWarren Buffett’s “2 List” Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities4 Reasonable Ways to Achieve Overnight SuccessThe Theory of Cumulative Stress: How to Recover When Stress Builds UpHow Smart Do You Have to Be to Succeed?“Email is Where Keystrokes Go to Die.”Free Download: Mastering Creativity (1st Edition)How to Uncover Your Creative Talent by Using the “Equal Odds Rule”3 Ways to Improve Your SleepLessons on Living a Meaningful Life from Nichelle Nichols3 Simple Ways to Make Exercise a HabitPhoto Essay: The Isle of Skye, ScotlandHow to Build Muscle: Strength Lessons from Milo of CrotonThis Simple Equation Reveals How Habits Shape Your Health, Happiness, and WealthWhat I’m Reading: Fall 2014 EditionMeasure Backward, Not ForwardHow Creative Geniuses Come Up With Great IdeasThe Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done7 Improvements I Have Made to My Writing and WorkHow to Build Skills That Are ValuablePhoto Essay: The Rocky Mountains and Streams of ColoradoThe Health Benefits of MusicHow Vietnam War Veterans Broke Their Heroin AddictionsHow to Build New Habits by Taking Advantage of Old OnesWhat Are You Measuring In Your Life?How to Solve Big ProblemsHow to Get Your Brain to Focus on What MattersHow to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy GuideLessons on Sharing Your Gifts With the World From Someone Who Didn’tHow to Read More: The Simple System I’m Using to Read 30+ Books Per YearHow to Get Better Sleep: The Beginner’s Guide to Overcoming Sleep DeprivationHow to Be Motivated Every Day: Lessons Learned from Twyla TharpMasters of Habit: The Wisdom and Writing of Maya AngelouHow to Change the Habits of 107,000 PeopleDo Things You Can SustainThe Only Productivity Tip You’ll Ever NeedLet Your Values Drive Your ChoicesHow to Find Your Hidden Creative GeniusWhat to Do When You Have Too Many Ideas and Not Enough TimePlan For Failure: Being Consistent Is Not the Same as Being PerfectSmart People Should Create ThingsHow the World Around You Shapes Your Thoughts and ActionsThoughts on Struggling to Finish My First BookMasters of Habit: The Deliberate Practice and Training of Jerry RiceHow to be More Productive and Eliminate Time Wasting Activities by Using the “Eisenhower Box”How to Change Your Beliefs and Stick to Your Goals for GoodStop Wasting Time on the Details and Commit to the FundamentalsI’m Using These 3 Simple Steps to Actually Stick with Good HabitsMy 2014 Integrity ReportHow to Eliminate Procrastination (The Surprising Strategy One Man Used)Why I WriteHow Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science)Masters of Habit: Rituals, Lessons, and Quotes from Marcus AureliusThe Myth of Creative InspirationThe Power of Imperfect StartsI Watched an Artist Create Stained Glass And Learned An Important Lesson About LifeThe Power of Less: I Removed Every Inessential Thing From My Website and Here’s What HappenedPhoto Essay: The Blue City of Chefchaouen, MoroccoStrategies I’m Using to Stay Fit While TravelingTreat Failure Like a ScientistRome Wasn’t Built in a Day, But They Were Laying Bricks Every Hour10 Simple Ways to Eat Healthy Without Thinking, Backed by ScienceHow to Stick With Good Habits Even When Your Willpower is Gone40 Years of Stanford Research Found That People With This One Quality Are More Likely to SucceedThis Research Study Changed the Way We Think About Success (Here’s How You Can Use It)Feeling Uncertain Doesn’t Make You Weak, Weird, or UnqualifiedThis is the Greatest Weightlifting Lesson I’ve LearnedThis Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Percent and Here’s What HappenedWhy Trying to Be Perfect Won’t Help You Achieve Your Goals (And What Will)My 2013 Annual ReviewThe 10 Best Articles of 2013Do You Have to be Unhappy Now if You Want to be Successful Later?How to Be Thankful For Your Life by Changing Just One WordThe Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His Greatest WorkIf You Sit at a Computer All Day This Mobility Exercise Will Change Your Life in 30 SecondsFollow the Recipe: Are You Being Patient Enough to See Results?What Every Successful Person Knows, But Never SaysYou’re Not Good Enough to Be DisappointedWhat Happens to Your Brain When You Eat Junk Food10 Common Mistakes That Prevent You From Being Happy and Healthy Today, Backed by ScienceForget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.Do the Painful Things First3 Simple Things You Can Do Right Now to Build Better HabitsHow to Chase Your Dreams and Reinvent YourselfStop Overdosing on Celebrity Gossip, The News, and Low Quality InformationWhat I’ve Learned from 2 Years of Intermittent FastingWhat I’m Reading: The Henrietta Lacks EditionHow Willpower Works: How to Avoid Bad DecisionsHow to Stick to Your Goals When Life Gets CrazyHow to Stay Focused When You Get Bored Working Toward Your GoalsHaters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your WorkThe Fight is the RewardWhat to Do When You Want to Build Better Habits But Can’t Get StartedThe Crime Your Brain Commits Against YouThe “Chosen Ones” Choose Themselves6 Truths About Exercise That Nobody Wants to BelieveLessons on Success and Deliberate Practice from Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant5 Thoughts on Overcoming Fear and Self-DoubtLive Longer: What You Can Learn from Elite Athletes and Why the Japanese Never DieBe Honest: Are You Rejecting Yourself? (Why You Should Make Things)The Daily Routines of 12 Famous WritersHow to Be Confident and Reduce Stress in 2 Minutes Per DayWhat is Actually Required for Success?How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”Effortless Ways to Lose Weight and Eat HealthyHow to Improve Your Health and Productivity Without ThinkingIf You Commit to Nothing, You’ll Be Distracted By EverythingThe Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking ActionHow Your Beliefs Can Sabotage Your BehaviorHow Positive Thinking Builds Your Skills, Boosts Your Health, and Improves Your WorkRandom Ideas About LifeYou Get 25,000 Mornings as an Adult: Here are 8 Ways to Not Waste ThemMake More Art: The Health Benefits of CreativityWhat is Your “Average Speed” in Your Life, Your Health, and Your Work?The Difference Between Being “Not Wrong” and Being RightIt’s Not Your Job to Tell Yourself “No”How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the “2-Minute Rule”Achieve Your Goals: Research Reveals a Simple Trick That Doubles Your Chances for SuccessHow to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good OneWhat if Your Doctor Prescribed Actions Instead of Medications?What if You Treated Your Life Like a Team Sport?Post is coming!The Two Types of InspirationHow to Squat More: How I Went From Squatting 175 pounds to 350+ in 16 WeeksLearning From Superhumans: The Incredible Fitness and Success of Jack LaLanneThe Science of Developing Mental Toughness in Your Health, Work, and LifeHow to Start Working Out When You Don’t Know What You’re DoingNatural Happiness: The Truth About Exercise and DepressionHow to Focus and Concentrate BetterGet Back on Track: 7 Strategies to Help You Bounce Back After Slipping UpHow to Say No, Resist Temptation, and Stick to Your Health Goals3 Time Management Tips That Actually WorkAnswers to the Most Common Intermittent Fasting QuestionsHow to Get Motivated When You Don’t Feel Like ItWhy Everyone Should Act Like an EntrepreneurHow to Achieve Your Goals EasilyHow to Start Eating Healthy (And Actually Stick to It)How To Start New Habits That Actually Stick10 Proven Ways to Reduce Stress at Work (And Why Overwork Could be Killing You)Why Everyone Should Lift Weights3 Surprising Reasons Why You Need to Rediscover Slow GrowthThe Magic of Committing to a Specific Goal5 Simple Ways to Be HappyHow to Stick to Little Healthy Habits (Like Flossing) Without ThinkingWhy Getting Started is More Important Than SucceedingMove Towards the Next Thing, Not Away From the Last ThingWhen to be Unreasonable With YourselfWhy is it So Hard to Stick to Good Habits?You Are Not Alone: How a “Keystone Community” Makes All of Your Goals More AchievableThe Difference Between Professionals and AmateursIdentity-Based Habits: How to Actually Stick to Your Goals This YearKeystone Habits: The Simple Way to Improve All Aspects of Your LifeWhat Does it Mean to Live a Healthy Life?The Top Life Regret of Dying Hospital PatientsAre You Living an Urgent Life or an Important Life?12 Lessons Learned from 1 Year of Intermittent FastingThe Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting116 Years Old: Lessons Left Behind From the World’s Oldest Living PersonThe 10 Pillars of Our CommunityThe Easiest Way to Live a Short, Unimportant LifeBelieve in Yourself (And Why Nothing Will Work If You Don’t…)How to Be Happy: A Surprising Lesson on Happiness From an African TribeSuccessful People Start Before They Feel Ready
Cal Newport
1124 posts · calnewport.comHas AI Gone Rogue?On AI Coding and Its DiscontentsDid OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?Why Reading MattersBeware of Productivity ParadoxesDear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?The Pope vs. Silicon ValleyOn God and LLMsThe Dark Side of the Jevons ParadoxEasy is OverratedOn Bottlenecks and ProductivityWho Asked For This?Brandon Sanderson vs. AI ArtIs Claude Mythos “Terrifying” or Just Hype?In Defense of ThinkingAvoiding Digital Productivity TrapsWhy Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?The Original Attention CrisisWhat Do Social Media Companies Fear? Time Management.Film Students Can No Longer Sit Through FilmsWhat I Learned from MasterClassThe Dangers of “Vibe Reporting” About AIIs the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition?What’s Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now?Be Wary of Digital DeskillingWhy Didn’t AI “Join the Workforce” in 2025?On Paperbacks and TikTokAustralia Just Kicked Kids Off Social Media. (Is the U.S. Next?)Why is the Internet Becoming TV?David Grann and the Deep LifeWhen it Comes to AI: Think Inside the BoxWhy Can’t AI Empty My Inbox?Forget Chatbots. You Need a Notebook.Why Are We Talking About Superintelligence?What If Lincoln Had a Smartphone?Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI?What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Reducing Phone UseThe Great AlienationThe Great Lock In of 2025Does WiFi Make Students Smarter?On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil SocietyOn the Reverse Flynn EffectDoes Work-Life Balance Make You Mediocre?What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?On Additive and Extractive TechnologiesOn Engineered WonderNo One Knows Anything About AIDispatch From VermontDon’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About PhonesIs AI Making Us Lazy?An Important New Study on Phones and KidsDispatch from DisneylandWhy Can’t We Tame AI?Are We Too Concerned About Social Media?The Workload Fairy TaleAI and Work (Some Predictions)Back to the (Internet) FutureProductivity Rain DancesLet Brandon CookThe TikTok Ban Is About More Than TikTokLessons from YouTube’s Extreme MakersThe Tao of CalAfter You Vote: UnplugThe Perfect Cheating Machine?When Time Management Was EasyDispatch from Herman Melville’s FarmDispatch from a Writing ShedOn Ultra-Processed ContentManchester United Embraces Pseudo-ProductivityDo We Need AI to Revolutionize Work?Two Chances to See Me Next WeekCan You Tweet Your Way to Impact?ChatGPT Can’t Plan. This Matters.Come See Me Saturday in DC + TikTok FaltersHow the Acquired Podcast Became a SensationHeschel on the Joys of SlownessMy new book: Slow ProductivityOn Slow WritingOn Metrics and ResolveStanding Up to TechnologyNeil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the InternetShould This Meeting Have Been an Email?The Quiet Workflow RevolutionOn Disruption and DistractionOn Tire Pressure and ProductivityOn Tools and the Aesthetics of WorkWe Don’t Need a New TwitterEdsger Dijkstra’s One-Day WorkweekWhen Work Didn’t Follow You HomeOn the Slow Productivity of John WickThe End of Screens?On Kids and SmartphonesDanielle Steel and the Tragic Appeal of OverworkMy Thoughts on ChatGPTOn Taylor Koekkoek’s Defiant DisconnectionMeta Rediscovers the CubicleOn Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human InternetPliny the Younger on Happy and Honorable SeclusionOn Email and HorsesGuillermo del Toro’s Inspiration MachineOn Quiet QuittingOn Teenage LudditesAnn Patchett on Scheduling CreativityWhat Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week? (Hint: Not Much)Did Early Humans Use To-Do Lists?Larry June’s Slow ProductivityOn Michael Crichton’s Busy AmbitionProfessio sano in vitam sanam (on balancing work and life)On Vampires and Method WritingBrandon Sanderson Built an Underground Lair in Suburban UtahYour Work Matters. Build Your Schedule Accordingly.Whitman in the Knapsack: Mary Oliver and the Power of Walking in NatureThe Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never HeardNew Study Confirms the Value of SolitudeTikTok’s Poison PillLBJ’s Poolside Phone and the Connectivity RevolutionThe 3-Hour Fields Medal: A Slow Productivity Case StudyOn Wendell Berry’s Move from NYU to a Riverside CabinJack Carr’s Writing CabinInbox Pause? How About an Inbox Reset?Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less AnxiousMy “Oldest” Productivity StrategyAziz Ansari’s Digital MinimalismThe Real Problem with TwitterSmartphones vs. Science: On Distraction and the Suppression of GeniusJohn McPhee’s Slow ProductivityThe Books I Read in February 2022Brandon Sanderson’s Advice for Doing Hard ThingsNathan Chen Didn’t Bring His Phone to the OlympicsLife of Focus is Now OpenOn the Structured Pursuit of DepthWatch Me Answer Your QuestionsThe Books I Read in December 2021What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media?Analog January: The No Twitter ChallengeWhy I Changed My Email SetupThe Books I Read in November 2021The Forgotten Tale of George Lucas’s Writing TowerThe Bestselling Magic of the Writing ShedWhen Facebook Came Calling…A Pastor Embraces SlownessOn the Source of Our Drive to Get Things DoneWhat Would Happen If We Slowed Down?Revisiting Parkinson’s LawOn the Pandemic and Career DownsizingA $5.5 Billion Reminder that Email is Not WorkOn Pace and ProductivityOn the Myth of Big IdeasOn Twitter Addiction and its DiscontentsNotes on Quentin Tarantino’s Writing RoutineOn the Dynamo and EmailHaruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious ThoughtSebastian Junger’s Focused RetreatThinking Outside the HomeLuke Skywalker: Digital MinimalistOn Productivity and Remote WorkThe Neuroscience of BusynessFavorable Conditions Never ComeThe Productivity FunnelOn Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness RevolutionIn Defense of ThinkingOn Robert Heinlein’s Analog AutoresponderCombating Zoom Overload with Reverse MeetingsOne Step Closer to a World Without EmailEmail is Making Us MiserableJason Fried and I Explore A World Without EmailSteinbeck’s Productive InactivityAnnouncing The Email AcademyOn Beethoven and the Gifts of SilenceMichael Lewis Doesn’t “Do” Social MediaDavid Mellinkoff’s Productive Lack of ProductivityA World Without EmailProjects vs. Tasks: A Critical Distinction in Productive SchedulingTheodore Roosevelt’s Focused AdviceAndrew Gelman’s 4 pm Rule (a Knowledge Work Reverie)Unpacking Our Dialectical Relationship with SlackFrom Instagram to Insistent Goats: Another Life After Social Media Case StudyRethinking the Internet, AgainOn Technology and Focus: ASMR, VR, and the First Steps Toward Immersive Single TaskingWhen Did Productivity Become Personal?The Time Blocking Revolution Begins…Staying Productive on Distracted DaysThe Stone Carver in an Age of Computer ScreensA Modest Proposal: Deweaponizing Network EffectsMy New Planner + The Time Block AcademyChurchill’s D-Day Task ListOn the Neurochemistry of Deep WorkDo Smartphones Make Us Dumber?Eric Posner Thinks It’s a “Serious Mistake” for Law Professors to Use TwitterMichael Connelly Starts Writing Before the Sun Comes UpLife of Focus: Now OpenFocus Week: Take Control of Your TimeFocus Week: Rediscover DepthFocus Week: Give Your Brain Some Breathing RoomReturning to a Life of FocusRay Bradbury Got It Exactly RightGeorge R. R. Martin’s Pandemic Writing RetreatDon’t Delegate Using EmailOn the Subtle Network Science of Optimal Office CommunicationThe Bit Player Who Changed the WorldOn Confronting the Productivity Dragon (take 2)On Deep Work Tents and the Struggle for Focus in an Age of Social DistanceHas the Shift Toward Neuro-Productivity Already Begun?A Deliberate TributeOn the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of TweetsOn Social Media and CharacterFacebook’s Fatal Flaw?Small StepsAncient Complications to Modern Career AdviceAnswering Your QuestionsOn Running an Office Like a FactoryCan Remote Work Be Fixed? My Latest Article For The New YorkerThe Lost Satisfactions of Manual CompetenceLet Go to Grow: On a Blogger’s Decision to Trade Social Media for a Quieter LifeThe Deep ResetWhen Technology Goes AwryAnother Tale of Finding Depth in a Locked Down LifeOn Doing Less to Produce More: A Novelist Embraces a Minimalist LockdownThe Chaotic FactoryBuilding a WWII Bunker in an Office BuildingBring Back Blogs?Building a Deep Work Cabin…in an ApartmentMore on Cultivating a Deep Life: MindsetCultivating a Deep LifeBeyond To-Do ListsThe Dichotomy of EmailBeyond the Inbox: Rules for Reducing EmailTask Inflation and Inbox Capture: On Unexpected Side Effects of Enforced TeleworkNick Saban Just Got EmailMore Thoughts on Amplifying Meaning in Your WorkAmplifying Meaning with EnvironmentWork and the Deep LifeThoreau on Hard WorkOn Productivity, Part 3On Productivity, Part 2On Productivity and the Deep LifeThe Inconvenient Popularity of Podcasts and Group TextsThe Deep Benefits of Learning Hard ThingsThe Underappreciated Impact of the Attention Redistribution RevolutionBenjamin Franklin on the Balance Between Solitude and CompanyFrom the Archives: On Quiet CreativityThoughts On NotebooksFrom Mammoths to Time ManagementNewton’s Productive School BreakCarl Jung’s Fantastical RetreatBuilding a Career that MattersBill Gates’s Prescient Internet PredictionOn Craft and the Human ConditionThe Astonishing Spread of the Victorian InternetThe Deep Life: Some NotesText File Time BlockingMikhail Botvinnik and the Invention of Modern Chess TrainingOn Irrational Numbers and Deep ThinkingOn Digital Minimalism and PandemicsMore Evidence of Facebook’s Negative ImpactTop Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using FacebookAlfred North Whitehead’s Awe-Inspiring FocusSir William Osler’s Advice to Students: Practice Concentrating on Hard ThingsOn Thomas Edison, Technophobia, and Social Media CriticismEdward’s Analog JanuaryThe Platform Exceptionalism of YouTubeThe Analog January ChallengeCharles Dickens’s Deep Christmas StrollsSocial Media’s Shift Toward MiseryThe Advice I Gave My StudentsHow Social Media Hacked Civic ConversationReflections on the Disconnected LifeThe Danger of Exaggerating the Political Importance of Social MediaA Subtle Mistake About How to Acquire Useful Career SkillsThe Obvious Way to Improve Your Career (That Might Not Be So Obvious)On Digital Minimalism, Loneliness and the Joys of True ConnectionA Piece of Advice I Wish I’d Included in My BookThe Atomic Minimalist: My Conversation with James ClearNot All Emails Are Created EqualHow Not to Be Alone: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Dangers of Diminished CommunicationOur Brains Are Not Multi-ThreadedOn the Surprising Benefits of an Un-Mobile PhoneIs Our Fear of Smartphones Overblown?“I Was Lacking in Enough Energy, Time and Attention”: Another Digital Minimalism Case StudyOn the Art of Learning Things (Ultra) Quickly“It’s Like I Couldn’t Stop”: A Digital Minimalism Case StudyThe Dynamite Circle: A Long Tail Social Media Case StudyBlurring Offline and Online: More on the Potential of Long Tail Social MediaThinkspot and the Rise of Long Tail Social MediaSenator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.”Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of WorkFranklin Foer on Devoted AttentionOn the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without ScreensNovelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being GreatOn the Utility FallacyOn Monks and EmailAOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story.Digital Minimalism and SportsDigital Minimalism and God (Or, is Social Media Undermining Religion?)The Arizona Cardinals Now Give Their Players Phone BreaksMike Trout Doesn’t Care About His Online Brand. He Just Made $430 Million.Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?)On Heidegger and EmailDigital Minimalism for ParentsOn Sam Harris and Stephen Fry’s Meditation DebateMinimalism Grows…The Beginning of a Digital Revolution?Adam Savage and the IRL Digital RevolutionWhy You Should Pre-Order Digital MinimalismAre Smartphones Necessary Anymore?Join Analog Social MediaFrom the Hyperlink to the Stream: Hossein Derakshan’s Critique of the Internet in the Age of Social MediaIs YouTube Fundamental or Trivial?On Blogs in the Social Media AgeMy New Book: Digital MinimalismIs Facebook the AOL of the 2010s? A Skeptical Examination of Social Media Network Effects.On Bryce Harper and the Impact of Social Media on AthletesOn Physician Burnout and the Plight of the Modern Knowledge WorkerYou Are Not a Talent Agent (So Why Do You Work Like One?)The Mona Lisa Doesn’t TweetThe Average User Checks Email 5.6 Hours Per Weekday. This Is Not Good.On the Law of Diminishing SpecializationSome More Thoughts on Human APIsThe Human API ManifestoHabits vs. WorkflowsCharles Wagner’s 100-Year-Old Warning About Social MediaA Brief Summary of the Social Media Reform MovementBeyond Digital EthicsOn Facebook’s Unique WeaknessThe Peacock in Menlo Park: On Open Offices and Signaling TheoryOpen Offices Make You Less OpenOn Passion and Its DiscontentsDigital Wellness for Grown UpsJerry Seinfeld’s Closed DoorYoshua Bengio’s Deep Thoughts on Deep ThinkingReady Player Productive: On Virtual Reality and Cognitively Demanding WorkSimon Winchester’s Writing BarnMy New Project, Part 3Beyond Black Box ManagementThe Disturbing High Modernism of Silicon ValleyOn Analog Social MediaBeyond #DeleteFacebook: More Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social MediaOn Social Media and Its DiscontentsStephen Hawking’s Radical ThinkingTim Wu on the Tyranny of ConvenienceSebastian Junger Never Owned a Smartphone (and Why This Matters)Facebook’s Desperate Smoke ScreenOn Simple Productivity Systems and Complex PlansAlexander Hamilton’s Deep AdviceOn Seriously Rethinking the Digital EconomyOn the Rise of Digital Addiction ActivismTycho Brahe’s Cognitive KingdomThe End of Facebook’s Ubiquity?BuJoPro: Thoughts on Adapting Bullet Journal to a Hyper-Connected WorldJocko Willink On the Power of DisciplineOn the Complicated Economics of Attention CapitalThe Woodworker Who Quit EmailThe da Vinci PauseSean Parker on Facebook’s Brain HackingArnold Bennett’s Fight Against Steampunk Social MediaSegment’s Systematic Quest for DepthAndrew Wiles on the State of Being StuckJony Ive’s iConcernAre You Using Social Media or Being Used By It?Spend More Time AloneApproach Technology Like the AmishFranklin Foer on Technology’s Surprising Threat to HumanityApple’s New Open Office Sparks RevoltToward a Deeper VocabularyAre We Going to Allow Smartphones to Destroy a Generation?How I Read When Researching a BookAziz Ansari Quit the InternetTop Performer is Now OpenOn Claude Shannon’s Deliberate DepthWhen Slower Communication Enables Faster GrowthJohn Carmack’s Deep NightsAn Early 20th Century Lesson on the Difference Between Convenience and ValueMike Rowe on Efficiency versus EffectivenessJohn Grisham’s 15-Hour WorkweekPatrick Rhone is NonlineJames Michener’s Nomadic Pursuit of DepthOn Steampunk ProductivityThe Life-Changing Magic of the Inbox Sort FolderListen to Baseball on the Radio (with a Book)Tim Ferriss and the Rise of the Email MiserWhy Are Maker Schedules So Rare?The Obvious Value of Communication is Perhaps Not So ObviousOur Ancient Attraction to FocusYuval Harari Works Less Than YouThe Focused Rise of Wesley SoThe Rise of the Monk Mode MorningFacebook Phreaks and the Fight to Reclaim Time and AttentionFrom Tools to Tool UsesOn Value and Digital MinimalismTop Performer is OpenAre You Working In Your Career or On Your Career?Stephen Hawking’s Productive LazinessOn Rooted ProductivitySome Thoughts on Transitioning to Digital MinimalismOn Digital MinimalismFrom Deep Tallies to Deep Schedules: A Recent Change To My Deep Work HabitsYour Most Important Thing Is Not EnoughWhat I’m Talking About When I Talk About Social MediaThe Impact Formula: New Evidence on the Factors that Lead to BreakthroughsNeil Gaiman’s Advice to Writers: Get BoredAbraham Lincoln’s Advice to Voters Unhappy with this Election: Suck it Up.The Opposite of the Open OfficeA Famous Rabbi’s Advice for Getting Important Things DoneIs Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?Nassim Taleb’s (Implied) Argument Against Social MediaQuit Social MediaOn Deep BreaksJoin Me and Scott Young for a Live Conversation on Learning and Study Skills on Monday at 8:30 pm ETA Productivity Lesson from a Classic Arcade GameTechnology Alone Won’t Make You Better at What You DoA Brief Note on TenureEmail is Most Useful When Improving a Process that Existed Before EmailOn Primal ProductivityNo Email, No Problem: A Workflow 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Entrepreneurship
Paul Graham
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Product & leadership
Lenny Rachitsky
126 public posts · lennysnewsletter.comAnnouncing Lenny’s Jobs: The best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job11 products I love, free for a year—the biggest Product Pass expansion in 2 yearsThe Lenny and Friends Summit is back!New: A free year of Cursor, Google AI Pro, Notion, Supabase, Gumloop, and Fin for subscribersA visual guide to getting out of a creative slumpTaking the week offFive principles for successfully managing managersA new perk for annual subscribers: A free year of some of the world's most beloved products (while supplies last)The definitive guide to mastering product sense interviews1,000,000What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter—2024 EditionLenny’s Newsletter holiday gift guide 2024How much do U.S. product managers really make?Raising a seed round 101The Subscription Value Loop: A framework for growing consumer subscription businessesTime management techniques that actually workAnnouncing the Lenny & Friends Summit 🙌How close is AI to replacing product managers?Meet your Lenny’s Newsletter Fellows ✨How to use Perplexity in your PM workTaking the week offHow Perplexity builds productMy podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessonsYou should be playing with GPTs at workHow to describe your business as an equationTaking the week off (and thank you!)The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2023Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it500,000How to find and win your first 10 B2B customersHow the most successful B2B startups came up with their original ideaHow to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market)How a traumatic brain injury made me a better PM—and personWhat working at Figma taught me about customer obsessionHow to do linear regression and correlation analysisProduct-led marketingHow Duolingo reignited user growthI built a Lenny chatbot using GPT-3. Here’s how to build your own.Five steps to starting your product-led growth motion, part 2Five steps to starting your product-led growth motionThe Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2022Startup to exit: Lessons from a first-time founderWhat is a good activation rateHow to get your marketing team to drive more impactHow to measure cohort retentionHow to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scaleHow to kickstart and scale a consumer businessI’ve launched a podcast!How to validate your startup ideaHow to know when to stopHow to develop product senseA product manager’s guide to web3The inside story of Facebook MarketplaceThe top 5 things PMs should know about engineeringThe Atomic NetworkA founder’s guide to communityLenny’s holiday gift guideSix rules of hiring for growth60 ideas to boost your growthThe 10 commandments of salary negotiationHow behavioral science can boost your conversion ratesDemand driving supply: The little-understood growth loop behind a surprising number of iconic billion-dollar companiesThe Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2021Kickstarting supply in a labor marketplaceChoosing Your North Star MetricGetting buy-inHow people discover new productsHealing your co-founder relationshipOn taking time offThe PM 🤝 Design PartnershipContent-driven growthLi Jin launches Atelier Ventures, her debut fund to invest in the passion economyBecoming a senior Product ManagerA quickstart guide to positioning2020 Year in Review – Issue 58A comprehensive survey of Product ManagementThe Transition: Layering sales onto a bottom-up self-serve productPricing your SaaS productWhat it feels like when you've found product-market fitA playbook for fundraisingMy favorite product management templatesHow today's fastest growing B2B businesses found their first ten customersWhat is good retention?How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 usersStrategy and tactics for increasing conversionThis newsletter is growing up 🌱Leading your company through a pandemic - Issue 20Leading a PM team meeting - Issue 19Productivity in the time of Corona 🦠 - Issue 18Turning around an underperforming team - Issue 17Building a referrals programThis Week #15: When should a SaaS startup raise money 💰This Week #14: Transitioning from startup founder to product managerThis Week #13: Balancing outcome-thinking with design and technical requirements ⚖️This Week #12: Expanding your business internationally 🌏How to know if you've got product-market fitThis Week #11: What should new PMs over-index on, and empowering product in a sales-driven orgThis Week #10: Keeping designers and engineers excited about metrics + Transitioning from DS to PM 🕺This Week #9: Breaking into growth, leading with influence, and (not) stepping on toes 🦶What They'd Do Differently 🔮 Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace BusinessMaintaining Quality 🏅 Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace BusinessAccelerating Growth at Scale 🔥 Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace BusinessHow To Know If You're Supply or Demand Constrained 🤹♂️ - Phase 2 of Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace BusinessHow to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 4: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Growing Initial Demand (plus a Bonus!)How to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 3: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Growing Initial SupplyHow to Kickstart and Scale a Marketplace Business – Part 2: Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Problem 🐣 - Supply vs. DemandHow to kickstart and scale a marketplace businessThis Week #8: Splitting equity with late-joining co-founders, favorite roadmap templates, and small changes that improve your orgShare one thing that you’ve changed within your organization that has made your team meaningfully more effectiveThis Week #7: Effectively communicating about a failure to execs, managing founder expectations, and hiring a Director of PMThis Week #6: Cultivating good relationships with distributed co-workers, building trust to accelerate growth, and leveling up as a PM when you have extra timeThis Week #5: Overcoming impostor syndrome, introducing growth to an org, and how to partner with your data scientistThis Week #4: Motivating engineers to hit deadlines, PM career ladders, and aligning with execsThis Week #3: Finding product/market fit, interviewing for a Director of PM role, and structuring discussions with senior leadersThe Secret to a Great Planning Process — Lessons from Airbnb and EventbriteThis Week #2: Tackling the chicken-and-egg problem, building a growth team from scratch, and addressing overlap with PM peers 🤔This Week #1: Must reads on growth, what PMs should focus on when joining a new team, and the value of an MBAThis Week #0: Advice on growth, product, and leadershipThe Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager 🤝28 Ways to Grow Supply in a Marketplace 📈Where Great Product Roadmap Ideas Come FromHow to get into product managementWhat Buddhism Taught Me About Product ManagementA Three-Step Framework For Solving Problems 👌What Seven Years at Airbnb Taught Me About Building a Business
Julie Zhuo
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Personal development
Dan Koe
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Tim Urban
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