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Essays and meditations on work, productivity, money, and life. I publish a new article every two to three weeks, so feel free to revisit this page again or sign up for my newsletter to receive the latest updates.

Year of 2023

Feb 26

Focus on Big Wins

Feb 19

Take Restful Breaks

Feb 12

The Prerequisite for Making Good Choices

Feb 5

Success in the Moment

Jan 29

5 Steps to Building a Reading Habit

Jan 22

Build Your Income Portfolio

Jan 15

Default to Yes, Then Learn to Say No

Jan 4

2022 Year in Review

Year of 2022

Dec 18

Are You Interested, or Are You Committed?

Dec 11

How to Plan for the New Year

Dec 4

How to Review Your Year

Nov 27

Humans Are Underrated

Nov 20

This Might Not Work

Nov 13

The Brag Folder: Keep Track and Showcase Your Work

Nov 6

Framework to Creating a Winning Environment

Oct 30

Careful Not to Break Yourself

Oct 23

How to Manage Yourself Effectively

Oct 16

5 Habits to Increase Performance Working Remotely

Oct 9

Get Comfortable With Who You Are

Oct 2

Learned Helplessness: What Is It? How to Overcome It?

Sep 25

How to Wake Up Early in the Morning (7 Simple Steps)

Sep 18

Hourglass and the Time We Have In Our Lives

Sep 11

Want to Get More Effective? Master This One Skill

Sep 4

Tools That Made Up the Backbone of My Productivity System

Aug 28

Make What You Do Sustainable

Aug 21

Bookending Your Day

Aug 14

Improve Anything by 47% With One Underrated Tool

Aug 7

Knowing Which Screw to Turn

Jul 31

Closing The Knowledge-Execution Gap

Jul 24

How to Stop Worrying About Money and Start Living

Jul 17

Quit Collecting Hammers

Jul 10

Feeling Overwhelmed? Take Action

Jul 2

Welcome to Work Less 001

Feb 13

Our Identity Will Change and That's Okay

Jan 20

Win the Battle of Today—Yesterday

Jan 7

2021 Letter of Review

Year of 2021

Oct 5

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

Aug 24

Optimize the Upstream

May 18

Personal Quarterly Review

Apr 21

How Much Is Enough

Feb 28

Your Attention Is Your Most Valuable Resource (Protect It or Die)

Jan 22

Why I Migrate My Blog From WordPress to Webflow

Jan 16

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

Jan 7

2020 Letter of Review

Year of 2020

Nov 4

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

Aug 13

What Warren Buffett Taught Me About Managing Risks and Growth

Jul 16

Supercharge Online Note-Taking

Jun 7

The Complete Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Beginners

Mar 21

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

Jan 4

2019 Letter of Review

Year of 2019

Nov 3

How to Break a Bad Habit

Aug 4

How to Live (and Struggle) Well

Jul 28

Lessons Learned From Benjamin Franklin's Daily Routine

Jul 21

Survivorship Bias: What World War II Taught Us About Our Mental Flaws

Jul 14

Dunning-Kruger Effect: The Smarter You Feel, the Dumber You Are

Jul 7

The 10 Best Books for Better Decision Making

Jun 30

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

May 12

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

May 5

Design Your Digital Environment

Apr 28

5 Research-Backed Practices to Increase Your Attention Span

Apr 7

StashAway Review (Updated for 2020)

Mar 31

Starting is Difficult, Finishing is Way Harder

Mar 24

Authenticity is Overrated

Feb 24

3 Habits to Live a Truly Successful Life

Feb 17

3 Steps to Build a New Habit that Sticks

Feb 10

How to Start Working Out with Consistency

Feb 3

The Good Decision Maker Manifesto

Jan 27

10 Best Time Management and Productivity Books

Jan 20

To Change Your Outcomes, Start Small (3 Charts That Explain Why)

Jan 13

Always Start Before You're Ready

Jan 6

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

Year of 2018

Dec 30

2018 Letter of Review

Nov 11

How to Be Less Dumb

Oct 28

Decision Minimalism: The Quest to Make Fewer—But Better—Decisions

Sep 16

Change a Habit Using This One Simple Rule

Sep 2

Knowledge Prioritization

Aug 19

5 Little-Known Success Tricks

Jul 22

Via Negativa

Jul 8

How to Develop Self-Discipline

Jun 24

How to Change Your Life

Jun 10

Think Like a Scientist: The Goal Is Never About Proving Yourself Right

May 27

5 Time Management Strategies Everyone Should Master

May 13

Stop Multitasking If You Want to Be Productive

Apr 15

The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Your Habits

Mar 18

Seek These 3 Things and You'll Grow

Mar 4

The Inseparable Relationship Between Physics and Productivity

Feb 3

Continuous Improvement

Jan 20

The Complete Guide to Overcoming Procrastination

Jan 7

How to Ruin Your Life with Goal Setting

Year of 2017

Dec 30

2017 Letter of Review

Dec 10

The Fight of Two Wolves Within You, Me, and All of Us

Dec 3

The Two Types of Growth

Nov 19

How to Do Meaningful Work that Matters

Nov 12

The Art of Getting More Done in Less Time

Oct 29

Make It Easy to Do What's Good

Oct 22

The Complete Guide to Personal Finance for Everyday Folks

Sep 3

Three Hacks to Healthy Eating Effortlessly

Aug 20

The Paradox of Choice: How Less Freedom Makes Us Happier

Aug 13

Warren Buffett 25/5 Rules of Productivity

Aug 6

Will Smith on Building a Wall

Jul 30

Make Better Decisions by Letting Go the Past

Jul 9

Be Good vs Get Better

Jun 18

4 Simple Hacks to Stronger Willpower

Jun 4

Stop Managing Time, Manage Your Energy Instead

May 28

How to Read More Books

May 14

10 Essential Life Skills Everyone Should Master (But Not Taught in School)

May 7

The 2-Minute Hack

Apr 30

Why Marginal Improvement Matters

Apr 9

The Feynman Technique: How to Learn Anything—Fast

Apr 2

Set Goals Like An Athlete

Mar 19

Stop Trying, Start Committing

Feb 12

A Simple Tip by Jerry Seinfeld to Generate Great Ideas

Jan 29

Motivation is Learned

Jan 1

Seeing failures in layers

Year of 2016

Dec 30

2016 Letter of Review

Dec 18

Make Use of the Domino Effect

Nov 27

Golden Triangle of Productivity

Aug 28

Why Do We Make Poor Judgment and Bad Decision

Jun 19

Why Don’t We Do What We Want to Do

Jun 5

What An Experiment at Stanford Taught Us About Human Behavior

Apr 3

How to Live Happier

Feb 21

The 3 Zones of Learning

Feb 1

How To Stop Procrastinating

Jan 20

How Are Beliefs Formed?

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