Table of Contents

Productivity

• Attention Management / Focus / Intentional Life
  • Attention Management Tip: Disable Push Notifications on Phone
  • Delay App Launch by 10 Seconds for Intentional Phone Usage
  • Calendar Should Reflect Your Values
    • How I Color Code My Personal Calendar
    • Chrome Extensions I use to Enhance Google Calendar
• Desk Setup
  • Desk Setup Upgrade: Dual Monitor + Dual Laptop Setup
  • Desk Accessory: Lightbar to Reduce Glare and Eye Strain
• Discipline
  • Atomic Discipline – How to be disciplined without waking up at 5 AM
  • Discipline is Key to Success, but Not to Massive Success
• Planning / Decision Making
  • Goal Setting / Values & Purpose
    • Goal Management System: Pillars, Pipelines, Vaults (PPV)
    • Why My Previous Attempt at PPV Failed
    • When there is no purpose for jumping out of bed
    • Long Term Goal Setting Could Be Premature Optimisation
    • Finding Values: What will be said in your Eulogy?
  • Prioritization
    • The best book I read on productivity – Four Thousand Weeks
    • Beware of Endowment Effect
    • 8 Reasons Why “Ivy Lee Method” Is So Effective
  • Essentialism
    • A Simple Definition of Essentialism
    • How to Create Space for Thinking and Why?
    • Don’t Avoid Trade-offs – Embrace Them
    • Essential Intent – One Decision that Eliminates a Thousand
      • Essential Intent for Blogging – Why do I Write?
      • Essential Intent for Travelling – Why I Travel?
    • Opportunities Are Not Equal
    • Deliberate vs Opportunistic Action
• Mastery
  • Polgar Experiment: How to Create Genius
  • 10000-hour rule vs 20-hour rule
  • Make More Pointless Things
• Note Taking / Obsidian / Journaling
  • Obsidian
    • Obsidian: Backup files using Google Drive
    • How to Enable Obsidian Vimrc Support
    • Track File Change Dates on Obsidian
  • Reading / Note Taking
    • Simple Note-Taking Tip: One Chapter == One Action
  • Journaling
    • Different Journaling Methods That Didn’t Work For Me
• Problem-Solving
  • Kind vs Wicked Learning Environments
  • What is a Fermi Problem?
  • [Fermi Problem] How many liters of water are in the World?
  • Hidden-Until-Solved Problem
  • Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
• Reading / Book Review
  • 4 Reasons for Interleaving Actionable and Non-Actionable Books
  • 4 Lessons I Learned from Range by David Epstein
  • A Writer’s Journey – Stephen King
  • Book Review — Into Thin Air
• Stress Management / Rest
  • Lofi Hip Hop – Chilled/Relaxing Music without Lyrics
  • Will It Matter a Year from Now?
  • How I Conquered My Worry of Sleep Deprivation
• Tools
  • “Sleep as Android” – Smart Alarm App to Wake Up on Time
  • Backup your 2FA tokens in the Authy App