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If-Then Planning: How to Actually Follow Through

If-Then Planning: How to Actually Follow Through

Two free tools that turn good intentions into automatic triggers.

Productivity

Implementation Intentions: How to Actually Follow Through

Implementation Intentions: How to Actually Follow Through

The if-then planning method that beats willpower, and how to wire it into a normal, interrupt-filled day.

Productivity

The Ivy Lee Method: Six Tasks, in Order, Every Day

The Ivy Lee Method: Six Tasks, in Order, Every Day

A 100-year-old daily prioritization habit that still beats a 30-item to-do list — plus how to run it on a 2026 calendar.

Productivity

Why You Don't Trust Yourself Anymore

Why You Don't Trust Yourself Anymore

How small broken promises accumulate into a confidence deficit, and what to do about it

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You asked. Here's what the data says.

You asked. Here's what the data says.

36 readers told us what they actually want. Turns out we've been on the right track.

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Parkinson's Law: The Hidden Reason Your Tasks Take Forever

Parkinson's Law: The Hidden Reason Your Tasks Take Forever

Why the time you give a task is the time it takes — and what to do about it.

Productivity

The Ivy Lee Method: How to Finish What You Start

The Ivy Lee Method: How to Finish What You Start

A 100-year-old prioritization system that beats most productivity apps — six tasks, ranked, done in order, plus the MIT habit that makes it stick.

Productivity

AI won't save you

AI won't save you

The productivity tools and AI shortcuts everyone's chasing only work for people who already built the foundation.

Productivity

Single-Tasking Works. So Why Do You Keep Stopping?

Single-Tasking Works. So Why Do You Keep Stopping?

You know focusing on one thing at a time is more effective. The problem is your environment was never set up to support it.

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Letter from the Editor: The data's in. You won't like it.

Letter from the Editor: The data's in. You won't like it.

AI helps. Unless it doesn't.

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The Planning Fallacy, Part 2: Why Breaking It Down Makes It Worse

The Planning Fallacy, Part 2: Why Breaking It Down Makes It Worse

How task decomposition inflates your confidence — and what to do instead

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Your Brain Won't Let You Forget the Unfinished Stuff

Your Brain Won't Let You Forget the Unfinished Stuff

How the Zeigarnik Effect is quietly draining your focus — and what to actually do about it

Productivity

The Version You Ship First Is Rarely the One That Matters

The Version You Ship First Is Rarely the One That Matters

Why your editing instincts are a productivity system — and how to use them on purpose.

Productivity

You Always Think It'll Take Less Time Than It Does

You Always Think It'll Take Less Time Than It Does

The Planning Fallacy, explained — and two methods for building estimates that hold up

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Stop Managing Time. Manage This Instead.

Stop Managing Time. Manage This Instead.

You're scheduling your hours. You should be scheduling your capacity.

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Stop Finishing First and Start Finishing Right

Stop Finishing First and Start Finishing Right

Why the "done" you're rushing toward is usually the wrong kind of done

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Your Attention Doesn't Switch. It Drags.

Your Attention Doesn't Switch. It Drags.

Interstitial Journaling — the 3-minute fix for the hidden tax of context switching

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Your Brain Is Making Terrible Choices. Here's Why.

Your Brain Is Making Terrible Choices. Here's Why.

Decision fatigue, the Two-Minute Rule, and Implementation Intentions

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Not Everything Deserves Your Attention. Some Things Don't Even Deserve Your To-Do List.

Not Everything Deserves Your Attention. Some Things Don't Even Deserve Your To-Do List.

The Eisenhower Matrix — why presidents did it, why productivity culture got it wrong, and how the ebook uses it as a system, not a sorting exercise

Productivity

You're Not Lazy. You Just Don't Know What You're Supposed to Be Doing.

You're Not Lazy. You Just Don't Know What You're Supposed to Be Doing.

The Expectation Clarity Framework

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I Wrote It. I Shipped It. Now It's Yours.

I Wrote It. I Shipped It. Now It's Yours.

Letter from the Editor — Issue # 3

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Your Brain Has a Timer. You Keep Ignoring It

Your Brain Has a Timer. You Keep Ignoring It

Two methods built around your biology — not against it

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Your Brain Has a Monkey Problem

Your Brain Has a Monkey Problem

And Tim Urban drew a picture of it that you'll never stop thinking about

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Last Chance: Get This Ebook Free Before April 1st

Last Chance: Get This Ebook Free Before April 1st

This ebook goes from $0 to $5 on April 1st. This is your last chance to grab it free — no catch, just reply.

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Your Mouth Is Moving Faster Than Your Brain

Your Mouth Is Moving Faster Than Your Brain

Nine habits for speaking with more clarity, confidence, and conviction

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