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Year of 2021

Oct 6

AppSumo SEO Strategy: How We 15x Our Blog Organic Traffic in a Year

Aug 25

Optimize the Upstream

Jul 24

Humans are Underrated

Jul 9

How to Focus on Big Wins

May 18

Personal Quarterly Review

Apr 21

How Much Is Enough

Mar 1

Protect Your Attention Like It's Your Most Valuable Resource (Because It Is)

Feb 6

Build Your Income Portfolio

Jan 23

Why I Migrate My Blog From WordPress to Webflow

Jan 17

How to Think About Your Life (and Find Balance in the Process)

Jan 8

2020 Letter of Review

Year of 2020

Nov 5

9 Lessons I Steal From People Who Are Smarter Than Me at 29

Aug 14

What Warren Buffett Taught Me About Managing Risks and Growth

Jul 17

Supercharge Online Note-Taking

Jun 8

The Complete Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Beginners

Jun 1

Self-Management is the Root of All Management

Mar 22

The Upsides of a Crisis: Lessons and Thoughts on the Pandemic

Jan 5

2019 Letter of Review

Year of 2019

Nov 4

How to Break a Bad Habit

Aug 5

How to Live (and Struggle) Well

Jul 29

Lessons Learned From Benjamin Franklin's Daily Routine

Jul 22

What World War II Taught Us About Our Mental Biases

Jul 15

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Jul 8

The 10 Best Books for Better Decision Making

Jul 1

What I Learned From Elon Musk and Ray Dalio About Making Better Decisions

May 13

Growth Follows Stages and the Goal Is to Stay in the Game

May 6

Design Your Digital Environment or Die

Apr 29

5 Research-Backed Practices to Increase Your Attention Span

Apr 8

StashAway Review (Updated for 2020)

Apr 1

Starting is Difficult, Finishing is Way Harder

Mar 25

Authenticity is Overrated

Mar 11

How to Wake Up Early in the Morning (8 Simple Steps)

Feb 25

3 Habits to Live a Truly Successful Life

Feb 18

3 Steps to Build a New Habit that Sticks

Feb 11

How to Start Working Out with Consistency

Feb 4

The Good Decision Maker Manifesto

Jan 28

10 Best Time Management and Productivity Books

Jan 21

Always Start Small

Jan 14

The Untold Leverage of Time

Jan 7

Life is a Game of Leverage and Here is How to Win It

Year of 2018

Dec 31

2018 Letter of Review

Nov 12

How to Be Less Dumb

Oct 29

Decision Minimalism

Sep 17

Change a Habit Using This One Simple Rule

Sep 3

Knowledge Prioritization

Aug 20

5 Little-Known Success Tricks

Jul 23

Via Negativa

Jul 9

How to Develop Self-Discipline

Jun 25

How to Change Your Life

Jun 11

Think Like a Scientist

May 28

5 Time Management Strategies Everyone Should Master

May 14

Stop Multitasking If You Want to Be Productive

Apr 16

The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Habits

Mar 19

Seek These 3 Things and You'll Grow

Mar 5

The Inseparable Relationship Between Physics and Productivity

Feb 4

Continuous Improvement

Jan 21

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Procrastination

Jan 8

How to Ruin Your Life with Goal Setting

Year of 2017

Dec 31

2017 Letter of Review

Dec 11

The Fight of Two Wolves Within You

Dec 4

The Two Types of Growth

Nov 20

How to Do Meaningful Work that Matters

Nov 13

The Art of Getting More Done in Less Time

Oct 30

Make It Easy to Do What's Good

Oct 23

The Complete Guide to Personal Finance for Everyday Folks

Sep 4

Three Hacks to Healthy Eating Effortlessly

Aug 21

How Less Freedom Makes Us Happier

Aug 14

Warren Buffett 25/5 Rules of Productivity

Aug 7

Will Smith on Building a Wall

Jul 31

Make Better Decisions by Letting Go the Past

Jul 10

Be Good vs Get Better

Jun 19

4 Simple Hacks to Stronger Willpower

Jun 5

Stop Managing Time, Manage Your Energy Instead

May 29

How to Read More Books

May 15

10 Essential Life Skills that Everyone Should Know and Master

May 8

The 2-Minute Hack

May 1

Why Marginal Improvement Matters

Apr 10

Learn Anything Faster

Apr 3

Set Goals Like An Athlete

Mar 20

Stop Trying, Start Committing

Feb 13

A Simple Tip by Jerry Seinfeld to Generate Great Ideas

Jan 30

Motivation is learned

Jan 2

How to Turn Adversity Around by Slicing the Three Layers of Failure

Year of 2016

Dec 31

2016 Letter of Review

Dec 19

Make Use of the Domino Effect

Nov 28

Golden Triangle of Productivity

Nov 21

The Essential of True Productivity No One Talks About

Aug 29

Why Do We Make Poor Judgment and Bad Decision

Jun 20

Why Don’t We Do What We Want to Do

Jun 6

What An Experiment at Stanford Taught Us About Human Behavior

Apr 4

How to Live Happier

Feb 22

The 3 Zones of Learning

Feb 2

How To Stop Procrastinating

Jan 21

How Are Beliefs Formed?

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