[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[2-minute rule]] - [[3S]] - [[5-minute rule]] - [[5S]] - [[6 meeting rules by Elon Musk]] - [[8 wastes]] - [[10 bullets]] - [[80-20 rule]] - [[100% rule]] - [[A bag of pencils will get you just as far as a basement workshop]] - [[A behaviour needs to be appealing, it needs to be achievable, and it needs to be activated.]] - [[Absorb yourself in the meaningful purpose of making impact, not in the monotonous process of doing a task]] - [[A calendar is just an alternate view for a todo list]] - [[Accuracy and precision mean nothing without action]] - [[Achieve the perfect morning routine with open new habit]] - [[Action is greater than knowledge. Being is greater than action.]] - [[A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius]] - [[Always be closing]] - [[Always define the next action step]] - [[A mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system]] - [[A new surface added is a new surface that must be maintained]] - [[Any job, big or small, do it well or not at all.]] - [[A "one minute challenge" is a brutally effective exercise that forces you to make something]] - [[A single player process is effectively a checklist of to do items]] - [[At 859, flip the sign.]] - [[Atomic habits]] - [[Attention residue]] - [[Automation does not absolve the absence of care]] - [[A way becomes the way]] - [[Bad habits are born out of convenience]] - [[Bad habits are hard to stop. Good habits are hard to start.]] - [[Balanced productivity is a sustainability practice]] - [[Balance of speed and quality]] - [[Be a floor, not a ceiling]] - [[Be a good friend to your goals]] - [[Become so effective that you redefine how people think about work]] - [[Be game to play]] - [[Being busy means doing stuff. Being productive means getting stuff done.]] - [[Be intentional about your time]] - [[Be intentional with your efforts]] - [[Biological prime time]] - [[Break down one hard giant task into many easy tiny tasks]] - [[Break down your behemoth goal into bite-sized tasks]] - [[Built-in quality]] - [["Busy" is a four letter word]] - [[Challenge to evolve not compromise, a new standard for good]] - [[Change order]] - [[Chaos gate]] - [[Close your loops]] - [[Combat helplessness with helpfulness]] - [[Commitment is an act, not a word.]] - [[Complexity isn't the problem. Avoiding it is.]] - [[Context switching]] - [[Continuous improvement isn't a particular thing you do. It is part of everything you do.]] - [[Control is the management, the interplay, of time, quality, and money]] - [[Create a checklist of for your checklists]] - [[Create meaning with a to-do list. Protect it with a to-don't list.]] - [[Creativity is the enemy]] - [[Cultivate actions that you want to do, that you can do, and that you can do right now]] - [[Day in the Life of a Japanese Knife Maker]] - [[Define the mission]] - [[Disciplined pursuit of less]] - [[Doing good]] - [[Do more by wasting less]] - [[Do not chase productivity for the sake of it]] - [[Do not fail to do good]] - [[Do nothing that is of no use]] - [[Do not use what you don't have as an excuse for not getting things done]] - [[Don't be someone else's inbox]] - [[Don't do work for works sake]] - [[Don't let distraction dictate the possibilities of your day]] - [[Don't think. Just do.]] - [[Do the boring purposeful thing right now and feel good the rest of the day]] - [[Do things because they've earned their place]] - [[Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.]] - [[Duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction]] - [[Effectiveness vs. efficiency]] - [[Efficiency]] - [[Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.]] - [[Empty work]] - [[Engineering principles]] - [[Essentialism - The disciplined pursuit of less]] - [[Exchange resources for results]] - [[Exhaustive effort isn't required for success. Efficient effort is.]] - [[Face the friction]] - [[Failing to prepare is preparing to fail]] - [[Find your focus]] - [[First, you create your habits and then your habits create you]] - [[Flow resides in the articulation of your boundaries]] - [[Focus is a personal ethereal thing that the world never stops trying to take]] - [[Focus is cultivated through the discipline of avoiding distractions]] - [[Focus on being productive instead of being busy]] - [[Focus on productivity, not perfection]] - [[Gemba|Gemba walk]] - [[Get stuff done]] - [[Getting things done isnt merely about the act of completion, but rather practicing the art of doing]] - [[Give yourself permission to do things]] - [[Goals may change, but they must always be understood]] - [[Goals must adapt to the realities of momentum]] - [[Good, fast, cheap. Choose two]] - [[Hack yourself to end laziness]] - [[Have extreme focus and fierce urgency]] - [[Hell yes, or no]] - [[Helps, harms, or hinders]] - [[High speed, low drag]] - [[High speed, low drag, useful after]] - [[How a lazy samurai figured out effort]] - [[How I take zero notes in medical school]] - [[How to break your phone addiction]] - [[How to cope with feeling unfocused or overwhelmed]] - [[How to create cause-and-effect diagrams]] - [[How to finish what you start]] - [[How to help yourself do stuff]] - [[How to make decisions faster]] - [[How to organize a bullet journal with the master list]] - [[How to quickly get out of a rut]] - [[How to stop languishing and start finding flow]] - [[How to study when you don't want to]] - [[How to transform your ideas to action]] - [[How to trigger good habits automatically]] - [[If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.]] - [[Improve your life with everyday Japanese habits]] - [[I must, at a moments notice, be ready to let go, walk away from it all, and do nothing.]] - [[Inaction is a slow death]] - [[Inbox zero for work]] - [[Inbox zero the mind]] - [[Increasing productivity means getting a desired result with as little effort as possible]] - [[Intentional task batching affords far less opportunities for distractions]] - [[Intuition is either the establishing or the test of understanding through minimal effort]] - [[It is a pointless exercise to solicit sympathy for unchanging state]] - [[It's not about doing it once a quarter, once a month, or once a week. It's about doing it every day - especially on days you really don't want to.]] - [[It's not about doing it once. It's about never stopping.]] - [[It's not about going fast. It's about knowing how to go fast effectively.]] - [[It’s not just about going fast; it’s about eliminating what slows you down.]] - [[It's not time management. It's priority management.]] - [[It's time to move on from Agile software development (It's not working)]] - [[Just in time management]] - [[Just play all the songs on the same guitar]] - [[Keep what works, stop what doesn't work]] - [[Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.]] - [[Lack of planning is the cause of most failures]] - [[Lean manufacturing|Lean]] - [[Lean manufacturing interview with a former Toyota Quality Manager]] - [[Learn to say no. Set your priorities straight. Avoid complaining.]] - [[Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.]] - [[Losers and closers]] - [[Make action actionable ASAP]] - [[Make hard things easy]] - [[Make it easier to succeed by making it harder to fail]] - [[Make it easy to do the right thing. Make it hard to do the wrong thing.]] - [[Maker time]] - [[Make things easier for yourself]] - [[Make things easy to find, hard to forget, and impossible to misunderstand]] - [[Make your bed]] - [[Making decisions quickly]] - [[Manager time]] - [[Measure twice, cut once.]] - [[Might as well]] - [[Navy seal commander explains why wake up at 4AM]] - [[Never miss twice]] - [[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into smaller jobs]] - [[No time management technique works unless you have this underlying thing called "discipline".]] - [[Not really sure how I’m going to go about it, so I’m just gonna start.]] - [[One-piece flow]] - [[Optimize your flow to move as fast as you think and feel]] - [[Organized as you gather. Tidy as you go.]] - [[Our brains don't mind hard work. We just don't like the idea of it.]] - [[Our goals should serve as markers—measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves]] - [[Output should not be an accident]] - [[Ownership over what you're doing, but bounded]] - [[Pareto principle]] - [[Peak flow depends on active participation in the real world]] - [[Persistent practice of doing hard things will make them less hard]] - [[Pixel Watch frustrations and how that applies to Design Systems]] - [[Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.]] - [[Point of performance]] - [[Poka-yoke]] - [[Process your process]] - [[Procrastinate procrastination]] - [[Procrastination]] - [[Procrastination robs you of the life you desire and deserve]] - [[Productive procrastination]] - [[Productivity is a balance of maintaining momentum over the interplay of various types of doing]] - [[Productivity is a mindset]] - [[Productivity is a practice]] - [[Productivity is built upon a foundation of good defaults]] - [[Productivity is built upon a system of systems]] - [[Progress comes from pace]] - [[Project management triangle]] - [[Pseudo-productivity]] - [[Put first things first]] - [[Put off putting off for tomorrow to do the important things today]] - [[Reasons are the fuel for excellence]] - [[Reduce the lag for ideation, but never while ideating]] - [[Reference material is most useful when it is visible and readily available]] - [[Remove digital distractions and bask in the calm of it's much needed absence]] - [[Respect for people]] - [[Say no gracefully, but unapologetically]] - [[Shortcuts are optimizations without standards]] - [[Simplify and connect]] - [[Slow productivity]] - [[Someone who starts something and doesn't finish something - that's a loser. Someone who starts something and always finishes it - that's a closer.]] - [[Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making bad habits hard]] - [[So much impact is wasted over the worrying of inefficiencies]] - [[Spectacular achievement is always proceeded by unspectacular preparation]] - [[Standardization]] - [[Starting something and not finishing something... in my book, that's not okay.]] - [[Stop wasting time - 5 time management skills to master]] - [[Success is when opportunity meets preparation]] - [[Take the things that are meaningful in your life and put them into action]] - [[Task batching]] - [[Technical debt - Improving the production pipeline]] - [[The art of making isn't magic. It's just doing.]] - [[The easiest way to double your productivity]] - [[The essay memorization framework]] - [[The goal isn't to become motivated, confident, or happy. The goal is to make yourself do stuff.]] - [[The goal output is how do you make yourself do things]] - [[The lag between idea to action]] - [[The lost art of accomplishment without burnout]] - [[The most effective system is the one that you actually use]] - [[The one thing only 1% of people do]] - [[The point isn't to make something perfect. The point is to make, period.]] - [[The power of one hour]] - [[The purpose of manager time is to make decisions]] - [[The real reason why it's easy to get stuck]] - [[The secret to Elon Musk's productivity]] - [[The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time]] - [[The snooze button allows you to start your day already failing]] - [[The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus]] - [[The success that everyone is desiring is hidden in our daily habits]] - [[The system helps us organize our 'what' the practice helps us clarify our 'why']] - [[The system that works for you is one that you've mastered and continuously refine based on your philosophy of work]] - [[Things that get written down get done]] - [[Think. Act. Repeat.]] - [[Think of many things; do only one]] - [[Time confetti]] - [[Time confetti is the enemy of both energy and excellence]] - [[Time is the most important, finite, and permanent resource.]] - [[To do two things at once is to do neither]] - [[To excel at many things, you must switch contexts swiftly and immerse yourself completely.]] - [[To know is to begin; to act is to achieve.]] - [[Tools for improving productivity]] - [[Toyota Production System]] - [[Treat uninterrupted blocks of time as treasures to guard]] - [[True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking]] - [[Understand the interplay of your tasks and have your context]] - [[Unlock your potential and build better habits]] - [[Use your space and stuff wisely]] - [[Value stream mapping]] - [[Visual control]] - [[Vitamin N]] - [[Waking up 1 hour earlier every day]] - [[Watch this if you're having an "off day"]] - [[We don't need perfection. We need to move forward.]] - [[We find joy and purpose through progress]] - [[What is made must be managed]] - [[What is the bullet journal method?]] - [[What makes a good project manager?]] - [[What's the point of working?]] - [[When preparing, create a mental map of what lies ahead]] - [[When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.]] - [[When we satisfy our psychological needs, we are allowed to fulfill our potential.]] - [[When you're ready, you can start finding the flow that lights the path out of the void]] - [[Why the 5-second rule doesn't work]] - [[Words show a man's wit, but actions will show his meaning.]] - [[Write it down. Get it out.]] - [[You begin to see all those meetings, the emails, and the overstuffed task list, not as a mark of productivity, but obstacles of what you're really trying to do.]] - [[You can never develop healthy habits unless you change your notion of pleasure]] - [[You don't need to be an expert to be effective]] - [[You get the benefit of doing fewer things better]] - [[You have to give everyone total autonomy within a tiny bandwidth]] - [[You must always prepare, even if the desired outcome is spontaneity]] - [[Your goal is to clear your plate, not to kick the can down the road.]] - [[Your inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for other people's agenda for your life]] - [[Your primary task list encompasses the "what" and embodies the "why". Your daily task list articulates the "how".]]