Productivity • Michael Uloth

Goals

📺 I WAS WRONG - How I Set Goals for the New Year • 11 minute video by Ali Abdaal about what convinced him that goals are actually useful and not detrimental

Habits vs. Tasks • The Sweet Setup explains why habits are generally more useful than goals 📖
Book Review: Atomic Habits • Miguel Crespo 📖
Change habits by changing friction • “If you’re trying to do less or something, increase friction. Make it as annoying as possible. If you’re trying to do more of something, decrease friction. Make it as easy as possible.” • Mike Crittenden 📖
Atomic habit building with ChatGPT • Mike Crittenden 📖
Set SIX Alarms. It’ll Change Your Life. • Identifying your domino habit (the habit that sets you up to follow through on your other habits) and setting reminders that set you up to complete it • Rian Doris 📺
Less-than-one-minute habits • Mike Crittenden 📖

The Journaling System that changed my life • Great overview of how and why to journal • struthless 📺
📖 Squarknote • Article by Susan Fowler Rigetti explaining how she uses monthly todo notebooks to achieve her goals

🧰 git-standup • Command line tool by kamranahmedse that reminds you what you did on the last working day

Advice from a Mathematician (Jacobi) • When trying to solve a hard problem, “Invert, always invert” • NeetCode 📺
How I think about solving problems - Human Who Codes • The five questions I used to help me decide, prioritize, and solve problems.

FOCUS – How to Achieve the Superpower of Laser Focus • August Bradley 📺
fantastic; rewatch and take better notes
Decide what matters most
Decide when I’ll do what matters most each day (and protect that time block)
Squeeze all other stuff around it in the remaining time (none of it is as urgent as it seems)
Decide what matters most ahead of time (the night before, before the week begins, etc)
Remove distractions (take an inventory of them and remove them)

Be less precious • Keep showing up; see this video reaction as well • David Heinemeier Hansson 📖

Slackmojis - The Best Custom Slack Emojis
Slack: How do I get slack to remind me every fortnight from next Saturday - Stack Overflow - Slack /remind format for custom repetition windows starting at a custom future date - StackOverflow
slack: integrations/slack: Bring your code to the conversations you care about with the GitHub and Slack integration - How to subscribe to notifications for specific GitHub repo event categories
Keyboard shortcuts:
- cmd-shift-a = go to all unreads
- cmd-shift-t = go to threads
- cmd-shift-y = set a status