Bookmarks
Essays and articles I keep coming back to on career, productivity, and how to live well.
High Agency In 30 Minutes
A short guide to taking initiative and acting when others wait.
George Mack
50 First Levers
Fifty practical levers for building leverage early in a career.
Eric Jorgenson
How to Be Successful
Compound growth, focus, self-belief, and playing long games.
Sam Altman
How to Do Great Work
How to find work that matters and push through to something great.
Paul Graham
How to Manage Opportunity Cost
When to say yes to opportunities and when to protect your attention.
Eric Jorgenson
Manual Work is a Bug
Why repetitive manual work should be automated away.
ACM Queue
Personal Proximity to Profits
How close you are to value capture shapes your career outcomes.
Eric Jorgenson
The Lucky-and-Good Feedback Loop
How luck and skill reinforce each other over time.
Eric Jorgenson
The Mom Test
How to talk to customers without getting polite lies.
Rob Fitzpatrick
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
A framework for choosing work that fits how you are wired—not just what looks prestigious.
2018 · Tim Urban
Listen to What’s Being Whispered, not What’s Being Said
What people say matters less than the subtext and patterns underneath.
Taylor Pearson
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
Why changing location does not fix an unsettled inner life.
Lawrence Yeo
The Quest to the Unlived Life
The gap between the life you imagine and the one you are actually living.
Lawrence Yeo
The Bucky Fuller Method: How Dividing Yourself in Half Improves Your Personal Productivity
Splitting your day in half to protect deep work from reactive work.
Taylor Pearson
The Goal Setting Template for a High-Output Life
A practical annual goal-setting system built for sustained output.
Nat Eliason
The Only Three Ways To Be More Productive
The only three real levers for getting more done.
Taylor Pearson
Noise Pollution Is a Thing, and It’s Making You Sick
How constant noise degrades health and focus—and what to do about it.
Markham Heid
8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.
A morning routine framework that compounds through the rest of the day.
Benjamin Hardy
23 Smart Ways To Increase Your Confidence, Productivity, and Income
Practical tactics for confidence, productivity, and earning more.
Benjamin Hardy
Life Is a Game. This Is Your Strategy Guide
Life framed as a game—with rules, stats, and strategies worth knowing.
2014 · Oliver Emberton
The P.A.R.A. Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Projects, areas, resources, and archives—a system for digital organization.
Tiago Forte