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Productivity handbook
Years of practice sorted into chapters that build on each other — and still work if you skip around. Start with the foundations, or jump straight to whatever is hurting right now.
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Foundations
01What productivity actually is (and what it is not), and how your head and body really work — motivation, procrastination, flow, sleep, energy.
- Foreword: the art of meaningful productivity4 min
- What it means to be productive in the digital age8 min
- Core systems: inbox, priorities, review7 min
- The psychology of productivity: working with your own mind8 min
- How to work in sync with your own body7 min
- The science of productivity: when the brain and performance speak in data9 min
Methods
02Proven systems, from capturing a single task to running whole projects — and, above all, how to pick the one you will actually stick with.
Tools
03A second brain, choosing apps by category, advanced tricks — plus the digital minimalism that keeps the tools from burying you.
- Your second brain in a digital world7 min
- Capturing information: your capture system9 min
- Choosing and setting up your tools: from chaos to a system8 min
- The key app categories13 min
- Digital minimalism: from theory to practice8 min
- AI and automation: let the work work for you12 min
- Five levels of working with AI: from chat to agent14 min
- Briefing AI is a skill, not a trick14 min
- Routines and agents: from “let me ask” to “it just runs”14 min
- AI, ethically and safely: data, responsibility, boundaries16 min
Situations
04Productivity in context: at home, on a team, in your inbox and at school.
At school
05A series for teachers: why teaching drains differently, lesson prep as a system, grading without burnout, attention in the classroom and school as an organisation.
At the company
06A series on organisational productivity: a team is not the sum of individuals, async communication, knowledge, processes, leading people and driving change.
- Why personal systems don't add up13 min
- Sync or async? A decision framework for workplace communication13 min
- Knowledge that doesn't walk out the door with an employee13 min
- Processes: what to automate and what to leave to people14 min
- Leading people: delegating, trust, and a manager's time14 min
- Introducing change: why most improvements die at the pilot16 min
Freelancing
07A series for working for yourself: pricing your time, winning work, client operations and financial calm.
Learning
08A series on learning: the science of remembering, notes, exams and learning alongside a job.
At home
09A series for home and family: running a household, parents and time, and digital hygiene.
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