| 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. |
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/