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Didact AI: The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
AVP Interview Resources
Setting Work Boundaries
Experimentalism: An Alternative to Perfectionism
Giving Ourselves Credit
It's Not My Fault
On the Importance of Volunteering
A Conversation With Our Inner Critic
You Waste Years By Not Being Able to Waste Hours
On Managing Time Debt
The Break is Part of the Work
Get the First Try Out of the Way
Make the Work Easier
How to Reduce Friction on Big Projects
The Great Thing About Decisions
To Work Better, Stop Working
The Urgent Can Wait
The Shakespeare of Board Books
Don't Sweat the Coffee: On Ignoring the Trivial
Signing Up Future You
Don't Waste Meetings
Conditions for Starting Our Work
Choose Your Hobbies Carefully
Is Your Daily Plan Realistic?
Be a Student of Your Own Past Behavior
Calm after the storm: How our basic market regime model held up
Feedback: A Simple Tool to Create Change
Can the Important Force Out the Trivial?
Approaching a Crisis Like a Professional
What to Do When You Don’t Feel Like Working
This Year, Make Good Behaviors Easier
What Do We Learn from 2020?
Think Days: Investing in Your Future
Working Like a Freelancer
Emotional Reasoning: Feelings Aren't Facts
On discretion in quant models
Every Night, a Little Thanksgiving
To Create, Start with Low Standards
The Right Way to Say No
What Leadership is Really About
On Self-Compassionate Productivity
During Hard Times, Focus on Others
Separating Productivity from Self-Worth
Don't Try to Get Through the Day
Make It Easy For People to Help You
Turning an Unproductive Day Around
The Benefits of a Professional Reading List
Work With What You’ve Got: Training Yourself to Work Hard
Two Benefits of Living More Intentionally
What Productivity Is Really About
Career Advice: Don’t Cut Your Own Path
For a Good Life, Knowledge Isn't Enough
Busy? Step Into Your Practice Pod
Introducing Crimely: Or, The Downside of Too Much News
Urns and colored balls: How to think about financial speculation
What Musicians Know
Do the Next Right Thing
A Different Kind of Perfect
The First Step to Solving Big Problems
Trust Your Systems: How to Not Sleep Through Your Alarm
Taking Failure Seriously (But Not Too Seriously)
On Fixed-Schedule Productivity
Assuming Good Faith
Always Do More than You Get Paid For
Documentation: Being Nice to Future You
Give Yourself a Pep Talk: Andy Grove on Leadership
An Easy Way to Improve Your Understanding of Human Behavior
Want to Learn About Yourself? Start a Garden.
What to Do When You Have a Lot to Do
Should You Use Social Media During a Pandemic?
Reclaim Your Free Time with Active Leisure
Your Daily Routine Is Gone. You Need to Replace It.
Everything Counts for More
Change, Crises, and Clarity
Timing re-entry into equities with a market regime model
Coronavirus: A Clear-Eyed Approach
Smashing the Russell 1000 for fun and profit*
To Do Your Best Work, Let Things Pile Up
Feelings vs. Information: What People Remember
Being Successful vs. Being Useful
Avoiding Error Chains
Two Simple, Timeless Productivity Tips
Bad Is Stronger Than Good, So Save Your Thank-You Notes
How I Started Drinking Enough Water (With No Effort)
Make It Easy to Say Yes
Is This Good for Me? Cleaning Up Our Mental Diet
6 Short Questions for a New Decade
Addition By Subtraction: Planning For a Calmer Year
A Brief Argument for Reviving Your Reading Habit
3 Principles for Writing Better Emails
Taking Better Breaks from Work
Productivity Tip: Getting Up to Speed on Big Projects
Never Miss Twice: A Middle Path to Building Good Habits
The Trap of Endless Optimization
On Intentional Communication: Don’t Pick Up the Rope
On Personal Change without Change
For Better Performance and an Easier Start, Try a Ritual
Daily Planning's Biggest Payoff
The Space Between Stimulus and Response: On Observing Our Emotions
Paying the Price of Success
Lash Yourself to the Mast: On Sidestepping Self-Discipline
On Practicing at Work
On Change
The Discipline to Close the Door
Keeping a "Things to Remember About Myself" List
Project-Centered Journaling: A Tool for Getting Unstuck
To Change Behavior, Get Specific
When You’re Ultra-Busy, Choose What to Neglect
Three Alternatives to Willpower
Why You Need a Game Plan
Choosing How Much We Care
The Story of Disneyland’s Trash Cans
A Bad Plan Beats No Plan
Imperfect Consistency and the Real Test
On Being a Mood-Changer
The Smartest Career Move You Can Make
Using Public Deadlines to Fight Procrastination
On Resistance to Organizational Change
When to Abandon Efficiency for Effectiveness
How to Spot a Bad Self-Help Book
Don’t Forget to Celebrate
Why It's Okay Not to Have an Opinion
On the Importance of Think Days
Strengths and Weaknesses: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Put On Your Own Mask First
Busy and Exhausted: No Points for Either One
On Accepting the World As It Is
“Reading the Books” vs. Talent
Leadership Tip: The Golden Rule of Change Management
Processing Email: How to Tame Your Inbox
Lowering the Barrier to Working on Long-Term Projects
Trying to Do More of What Matters? Let Excel Help.
Next-Level Daily Planning: When to Schedule Different Kinds of Work
The Pros and Cons of Quitting Social Media
What to Do When Your Schedule Falls Apart
How to Skim a Book, and Why You Should
Three Reasons to Make More Checklists
The Four Basic Components of a Good Productivity System
Two Tips for Improved New Year's Resolutions
A Tip for Managing New Holiday Gifts
How to Use Counterfactual Thinking to Your Advantage
Productivity Tip: Schedule Your Free Time
What George R.R. Martin Can Teach Us About Tool Selection
Hardship and Perseverance: Lessons from an Astronaut
3 Ways to Begin a Daily Gratitude Practice
What "Math People" Know
My Niece's TEDx Talk
I Hope You Vote Today
Good Tools are Worth the Money
Improving Our Chances for Personal Change
How to Make Your Goals More Motivating
Here's How to Remember Important Conversations
An Ode to Taking Action
How I Lobotomized My Smartphone (And Why You Should, Too)
Peter Drucker on Time: Our Most Important Resource
What to Read Next? Out with the New, In with the Old.
Time Blocking: A Brilliant Time Management Tool
How to Rescue a Half-Wasted Day
To-Do Lists and Goals
On Avoiding Becoming Jaded
Hacking Your To-Do List: Verbs Only
It Will All Get Done: Two Tips for Surviving a Busy Period
Update Your Headshot
Use It or Lose It
Getting a New Project Organized
On Weird Productivity Tactics
Cheating Others Out of Our Best Work
Respect Creativity
Einstellung and the Internet
Decide When and Where
High-Altitude Productivity
All Twelve Keys
When Is a Jerk a Jerk?
Notice What's Working
Pull the Weeds While They’re Small
How to Plan Your Week
What’s the Best Way? It’s Simple.
Confronting a Good Book That’s Got a Little Crazy In It
A Simple Tip to Improve Your Eating Habits
Changing a Behavior? Start With Your Environment.
Can Self-Compassion Improve Productivity?
We’re Poor Judges of Our Own Behavior
The Time Will Pass Anyway: Evaluating Long-Term Goals
Tweak Your Work Environment to Increase Productivity
Astronaut Jim Lovell on Workplace Problems
Effective Living: Leave It Better Than You Found It
No Time for a Think Week? Take Think Days Instead.
Are You Sure It’s Plugged In?
Upcoming Experiment: The Think Week
Four Blogs Not to Miss
Attention Management and Project Planning: Doing the Work Up Front
We Could All Use a Little Coaching
Getting Good at What You’re Bad At
Life is a Steak: a Metaphor for Understanding Work
Haggling? Ackerman Bargaining Is the Formula You’ve Been Looking For
Costly Signals: How We Prove We Mean Business
How to Read . . . Less? When to Put a Book Down
How to Make Your Life Worse in 5 Steps
The Value of Easy Changes
Yelling At the Mechanic
Case Study: Email Etiquette and Varying Worldviews
Purge Your To-Do List: Letting Go of Old Tasks
On Old-School Information Gathering: Less Googling, More Talking
The Peak–End Rule: Get Down to Business While Remaining Friendly
Pop-Tarts and Restraint Bias: How Much Self-Control Can We Count On?
How to Keep Your Work Email From Eating Your Morning
Need to Get Something Done? Use Your Calendar, Not Your To-Do List
The Stockdale Paradox: Faith and Discipline
Principles of Adult Behavior: 25 Ideas for Living with Dignity
When In Doubt, Cut Something Out
Pain Points: How to Make Yourself More Valuable at Work
What to Do When You’re Not Feeling Up to It
Two Notes on Taking College Classes In Your 30s
To Make Better Decisions, Learn Big Ideas From Other Disciplines
Why I’ve (Mostly) Quit GTD
Minimalism: How Much Stuff Should We Own?
A Way to Make Recurring, Difficult Tasks Easier
Meriwether Lewis and the Value of Clarity
Learning to Embrace Befuddlement
To Argue More Productively, Ask This Question
Why You Should (Usually) Take Notes By Hand
Cognitive Biases: Weeding Our Mental Garden
How Interleaving Improves Learning
User Manual
Break the Golden Rule: Improving Work Relationships
Time Management and Big Important Projects
Re-reading Is Ineffective. Do This Instead.
The Surprising Usefulness of the Personal Project Post-Mortem
The Case for Simple Digital Tools
How to Read More Books: 8 Tips
What Is Stoicism, and How Can It Make Your Life Better?
The Problem with Minimalism
3 Tips for Dealing with Vague Long-Term Work Projects
How Habits Work (and How to Change Bad Ones for Good)
An Ancient Technique for Weathering Life’s Storms
Cafes, Notebooks, and Understanding How Creative Work is Done
Rules for Daily Living: Writing Yours Down
How to Keep Email from Running Your Workday
7 Questions to Ask Before You Give Up
The Common Denominator of Success
The Culture of Your Workplace (and Why It Matters)
How to Make Unpleasant Tasks a Little Easier
An App to Help You Use Your Phone Less
Two Kinds of Criticism, and What to Do With Each
How to Defeat Distraction While In the Zone
A Simple Way to Grab Some Time for Yourself
3 Books You Should Read Immediately
Crazy Busy? Remember This.
6 Ways to Become More Resilient
Anticipating Difficulty: What's in Your Emotional Toolbox?
The Daily Post-It Note: A Dead-Easy Way to Get the Right Things Done
Want to Make a Big Change? Think Small.
The Gap: What Stops Most People From Doing Creative Work
How to Manage Multiple Projects Without Going Crazy
4 Reasons You Should Start Keeping a Journal
How to Schedule Your Entire Day Without Feeling Trapped
My Snickers Problem: When to Compromise With Yourself
Too Busy? Try Letting Small Bad Things Happen.
How to Use a Simple Google Form to Track Your Behavior
You Are the Average of the 5 People You Spend the Most Time With
Static Friction: Why Getting Started Is So Hard
How We Paid Off $48,000 of Student Loan Debt in Two Years
From Subway to MacArthur Genius Grant: A Case Study in Perseverance
Fitness: The Other Four Kinds
All Work Is Group Work
Why Time Management is Like Dental Floss
In Praise of the Humble Thank-You Note
Rickets of the Mind
The Productivity Equation
Thank You
Setting Some Ground Rules
A Simple System for Managing Paper
How to Get Some Good Out of a Bad Day
Take the Lane: When Safe Feels Dangerous (and Dangerous Feels Safe)
3 Unconventional Tips for Becoming More Confident
5 Ways to Keep Politics in Perspective
How to Keep Fear from Making Decisions for You
7 Time Management Tips You Can Implement Right Now
How to Successfully Juggle a Million Different Interests
Struggling to Achieve Your Goals? Try This.
6 Tips for Resolving Workplace Conflicts
The Simple Genius of Planning Your Day the Night Before
2017 Reader Survey: Help Me Be Useful to You!
At Work, Look to Give (Not to Receive)
Let Go of What You Can’t Control (That Includes Your Past Mistakes)
You Already Know What to Do, and That’s Half the Battle
The Chasm Between Planning and Doing
It’s the Set of the Sail, Not the Direction of the Wind
Is Your Life Unbalanced Lately? Don’t Worry About It. Here’s Why.
The Secret to Doing Hard Things Daily
5 Common Mistakes Highly Productive People Make
Defeat Imposter Syndrome: 4 Tips for Overcoming Self-Doubt
The To-Don’t List: A Tool for Staying Focused
What a Baby Pooping in Your Lap Can Teach You
6 Ways to Break Out of a Productivity Funk
24 Hours. No Exceptions.
Pay Attention Carefully
Taking Off from the Infinite Runway
We Are All Hypocrites
The Upgraded Bookmark: 30 Seconds to Easier Reading
5 Tips for Starting a Creative Habit and Sharing Your Work
All Mistakes Are Not Created Equal
How to Harness the Incredible Benefits of Long-Term Thinking
Three Reasons We Give In to Short-Term Thinking (and Why It’s Bad)
My 2016 Jimmy John’s Bill (or, How Short-Term Thinking Can Ruin Your Life)
Does Failure Encourage Compassion for Others?
Become Happier by Making Room in Your Life
What Do We Really Want at Work?
6 Easy Wins for Increasing Productivity
The Problem with Lucky Breaks
Our New Baby Girl (and 3 Ways to Avoid Catastrophizing)
You Can’t Rush The Important Stuff
A New Year's Resolution: Doing Less, Better
What a Year of Daily Trumpet Practice Taught Me
Big Projects: Building a House vs. Learning to Drive
Predictions for Fatherhood (Part II)
In 3 Weeks, I’ll Be a Dad. Here’s What I Predict for Fatherhood. (Part I)
Home Improvement vs. Self-Improvement
What to Do When You’re Unmotivated
Do You Need a Plan?
Does Your Job Fit in a Manual?
How to Be Grateful (When You Don't Feel Grateful)
Perfectionist? Here’s the Price You’re Paying (and How to Pay Less)
Useful Things: November 2016
Failure Résumé
Consider Writing a Failure Résumé
How to Help Others: Share Your Failures
A Five-Minute Exercise to Lower Stress and Clarify Thinking
What Makes a Good Day?
Hanlon’s Razor and Compassion for Others
The Four-Year Plan
Useful Things: October 2016
Life Is Not a Zero-Sum Game, So Give Generously
Availability Heuristics and Dealing with Bad Days
Inspiration Is for Amateurs: How to Do Great Creative Work
2 Questions to Ask Before You Turn Your Hobby Into Your Career
How to Deal with Uncertainty (When You Hate Uncertainty)
Task Importance and the To-Do List Trap
Anything Worth Doing is Uncomfortable at First
The Philosophy Major and the Business Major
14 Questions about Leadership
What Does the Audience Want?
How Professionals Think About Equipment
Why You Shouldn’t Avoid Discomfort
Exposure Therapy and Your Work
11 Ways to Avoid Improvement
Great Leaders Expect Complexity, Not Simplicity
You Don’t Get Credibility First. You Get Credibility Last.
Balancing High Expectations with Reality
Feeling Ready Isn’t a Useful Measurement
Increase Your Creativity With Constraints, Part II
Increase Your Creativity With Constraints, Part I
Don't Look at the Roadkill
Productivity Tip: Use Small Chunks of Time
How to Improve Your Concentration With Zero Effort
Why Increasing Your Productivity Is Often Disappointing
90 Minutes of Focused Work
Problems with Personal Development, Part II
Problems with Personal Development, Part I
The Hedonic Treadmill and How to Live More Effectively
Corporations Are People. What If They Were Good People?
How to Fix the Problem of Too Many Choices
What is Raising the Stakes, and How Can It Turn You Into a Productivity Monster?
Your Comfort Zone and Safety Zone
How to Focus: 6 Productivity Tips
Learn From the Experts: 2 Big Reasons to Ask For Help
Default Answer: Yes or No?
Make Opportunities Fit You
Ask Boldly
3 Steps to Living an Intentional Life
Detail-Oriented Is Overrated
Gratitude Check-Up: Four Questions to Ask Yourself
Can You Say Yes When Your Life is Full?
How to Take a Habit Inventory
Garrison Keillor's Memorial Day Sonnet
Where to Find Good Ideas
What Would This Look Like If It Were Easy?
In Praise of Structure
Please Remember Rule Number 6
How to Read More and Waste Less Time
Is Self-Improvement Selfish?
What to Do When It’s Not Ready
Reading
Don’t Think. Just Start.
When to Argue With Someone
Writing Your Symphony Tomorrow
How Do You Relax?
How to Become a Happy Taxpayer
Think Like a Freelancer
Be Nice to Future You
Done Is Better Than Perfect
Books That Changed My Life, Part II
Books That Changed My Life, Part I
Expect the Expected
How Hindsight Bias Steals Our Credit
How Your Personal Philosophy Controls Your Life
What’s an Inspiration Portfolio, and Why Do You Need One?
How to Roast Your Own Coffee
3 Reasons to Roast Your Own Coffee
When the Honeymoon is Over: Keeping It Going
A Simple Formula for Problem-Solving
Do The Most Important Thing First
The Power of Gratitude: Some Things I'm Grateful For
Success Is Boring, and That’s Exciting: Why Habits Are Crucial
You Are Self-Employed
The Magic of a Morning Routine
You Need to Create: Why Making Art Is for Everyone
The Power of On Purpose
The Basics of Getting Things Done, Part III
The Basics of Getting Things Done, Part II
The Basics of Getting Things Done, Part I
What Do We Owe Musicians?
3 Reasons to Start Reading More
Failure is Good. So Are You Failing Enough?
Three Reasons You Should Try to Improve: An Argument for Personal Development
What is Personal Development, and Why Should You Care?
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