Articles on productivity from Effective Living
And no, email isn’t one of them… Things (task management) This is the tool I’ve got the most use out of over the last ten years. I don’t ever forget things I have to do… Read More »The fifteen most useful apps for productivity
One of the reasons I recently left my job to start writing full time was because of the awful meeting culture. Not only were meetings run badly, but there were far too many of them.… Read More »Why do people have too many meetings?
I liked to think I’d won the war against social media back in 2016, which is when I stopped posting on Facebook. I’d long since given up Twitter, and never got onto Instagram. But I’d… Read More »Muting WhatsApp chats is the best productivity hack
Huel is a popular meal replacement drink. But if you’re not used to replacing meals, knowing whether to buy Huel can be daunting. Here are the benefits of Huel, and the costs, so you can… Read More »The benefits of Huel – and the costs
This article goes hand-in-hand with my framework for beating decision fatigue. That article is more exhaustive, while this one gives specific tactics you can use that will make a big difference on their own. I’ve… Read More »Fifty specific ways to fight decision fatigue
In 2016 I returned to London from Kabul, Afghanistan, where I’d worked on a compound that at its longest stretch was about 150 metres. For the year that I had lived there, every day was… Read More »A five-step framework for beating decision fatigue
In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that we’d be working 15-hour weeks by now. Sadly, he was wrong. A large part of why we’re not is because of our (or capitalism’s) insatiable desire… Read More »How to combat Parkinson’s Law
N.B. There are lots of articles about how to make money from writing, but this is about the practice of getting your first few pieces written, and building a habit. It’s also about my personal… Read More »How I built my writing habit from scratch
Every productivity nerd will have at least heard of the Pomodoro Technique. It was invented by Francisco Cirillo in the late 1980s and is a simple way of ‘time boxing’ work. Pomodoro is the Italian… Read More »The 11 benefits of the Pomodoro Technique