Rajesh Namase
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Time

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

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A productivity hack I actually use

The one-card Kanban: the night before, pick one to three tasks that matter most. Do the first one first. The rest of the day follows.

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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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How I track every one of my 24 hours

We call time our most valuable asset and then hand it to WhatsApp. The habits and app limits I use to actually do what I say.

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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: time blocks, tracking, and saying no. A friend lost eighteen months doing the opposite.

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The 24-hour timetable I built at 25

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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Ten productivity changes that worked

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.

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The year we cut social media

As Tushar wrote in his status that in this year (2014), our target was to minimize our social media use. A never unending news feed is quite distracting.…

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Tips to become more productive

The seven lines I wrote in February 2014 to fix my own day, still word for word, with what a decade of running them taught me.