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What's your #1 productivity hack?

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Mine, is this one "Picking the right thing to work on is the most important element of productivity and usually almost ignored." from Sam Altman. I take the time each day to prioritize my tasks, meetings, etc.
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Coffee
haha, yes, coffee is my savior.
8 hours of sleep.
Essential!
YES! I track that sleep baby! It matters.
I remove all the things around me that are unnecessary. Like cleaning my desk and turning my phone off. However, besides that, being in a perfectly quiet place where no one is talking ( or being alone ) is the biggest factor regarding my productivity because it helps me to build momentum and flow. O yeah, and I eat dark chocolate because it improves my concentration, thus entering faster into workflow.
Yep! totally agree with this one. There's this great line from Anthony Bourdain's book, where a young prep chef is having trouble keeping up. As the story goes, the head chef comes up behind him, and slams his hand down on the young prep chefs work station, and pull his hand up - now covered in all sorts of food scraps. He holds his hand 3 inches from the young chefs face and says "This is your mind right now, you can't work if your mind is a mess" A clean environment is a clean mind!
I built a system called PEP based on the OKR system. It stands for Purpose Energy Priorities. If you're looking for a quick fix hack though, the Pomodoro timer ranks high for me.
Can I read something about this PEP system?
How about a video? :) I find think I explain it better this way. Feel free to ask me any followup questions. Thanks for asking!
Thanks!
From time to time if I haven't gotten to inbox zero in a while, I'll just archive everything.. figuring.. "eh, if it was important they'll try again.."
savage 😂
I do it from time to time! You feel pretty well after that, right!?
haha, this is actually the approach I took. Now I just keep it at 0
Definitely taking regular, short breaks. Check out Boost's article on 10 tips for productivity while working from home:
Good stuff here dude! Thanks for sharing. Going to try preparing meals ahead of time. Seems like a nice time saver. Unfortunately #4 isn't really an option ATM 😂
Monthly/Weekly/Daily planning i think.
Reminded me of the (slightly longer term) Intercom mental model for roadmaps: 6 weeks, 6 months, 6 years
Avoiding online polls and questions.
I write a todo list everyday. I also try to focus on the items I am most passionate about and tick them off the list first.
Why this first? To give you energy for the "others"?
yes exactly. It kind of makes me feel happy to see stuff ticked off my todo list.(: also, I can normally get more done when I am passionate about what I am doing...
Redirect websites to 127.0.0.1 in my host file lol
Thanks for sharing this! This hack was very effective for snapping out of bad browsing habits
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