NRajeshNamase

Subject

Time

Hours, habits and attention, and how to get them back.

8 entries

Newest first

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A productivity hack I actually use

The one-card Kanban: pick one to three needle-moving tasks the night before, do the first one first, and the rest of the day takes care of itself.

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The habits behind highly productive people

The habits behind Jobs, Zuckerberg, Gandhi and Obama, stripped of the myth: priorities, learning over gossip, and the self-talk that keeps you going.

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On people who arrive late

Fifteen minutes late is not a small thing. What lateness says about how someone values time, theirs and yours, and the choice each of us makes daily.

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Read this only if you respect time

We call time our most valuable asset and then hand it to WhatsApp. The habits and app limits I use to close the gap between saying so and doing so.

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Where I have been, and how I run many projects

Where I disappeared to, and how I run several projects at once without repeating a friend's lost eighteen months: time blocks, tracking, and saying no.

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Productivity tips and time management

At 25 I built a 24-hour timetable and followed it strictly. What I read, what I changed about sleep and attention, and why it still holds.

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Productivity tips from personal experience

Ten things that measurably changed my working day, from waking early to time-limiting WhatsApp, with the tools and the research behind each one.

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Cutting the distractions

The experiment after quitting the news feed: measuring where messaging apps and social media take the day, and taking those hours back.