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You're welcome. Sorry for being self-referential, but we really did put our best productivity advice in the book -- Chapter 3: Spend Your Time Wisely. Here are
by yegg 7y ago
You're welcome. Sorry for being self-referential, but we really did put our best productivity advice in the book -- Chapter 3: Spend Your Time Wisely. Here are the "Key Takeaways" from that chapter (there is a little section at the end of each).
* Choose activities to work on based on their relevance to your north star.
* Focus your time on just one of these truly important activities at a time (no multitasking!),
making it the top idea on your mind.
* Select between options based on opportunity cost models.
* Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
* Recognize when you’ve hit diminishing returns and avoid negative returns.
* Use commitment and the default effect to avoid present bias, and periodic evaluations to avoid loss aversion and the sunk-cost fallacy.
* Look for shortcuts via existing design patterns, tools, or clever algorithms. Consider
whether you can reframe the problem.
- ducttape12 7y agoAwesome, thanks for the reply! Guess I'll make a point to read your book then :-)
- myth_buster 7y ago> Consider whether you can reframe the problem. This to me has been perhaps one of the most useful tool when I'm struggling with something. The fable of NASA's space pen [0] is good marker to invoke this. [0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/
- greymalik 7y agoHow would you tackle multiple priorities/north stars? What if I want to be the best parent I can be and save enough for retirement? I can't put off being a parent until I have enough to retire on, nor can I wait to start saving for retirement until after I'm "done" being a parent.
- zild3d 7y ago* Use the Pareto principle to find the 80/20 in any activity and increase your leverage at every turn.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoStronger: I can't put being a parent on hold to write my book. Not if I already have kids. I can't put it on hold to build my career, or launch my startup. They need you today, not when your "north star" is done.