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Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?
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#52Mental flexibility. Oftentimes, people build their identities on hard and fast beliefs. These have a way of eliminating entire directions of exploration when the ingredients that cook into a decision are being gathered. Routinely refresh your deepest beliefs and your mental architecture will be much, MUCH more optimal.
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#53https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning your day in high resolution. The hours no longer just slip through my fingers. I made it one weekend a couple of years ago and I've used it myself ever since. I'm not exaggerating when I say that my productivity has massively improved because of it.
That's interesting, I'm making something similar (https://getartemis.app). A lot of calendars don't seem to solve the issues of using tasks as events, as one does with time blocking. Then, tasks can't be easily moved around, duplicated, and so on, they're rigid on the calendar. It annoyed me so much that I wanted to make something myself.
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#54You probably hear all the usual productivity hacks like promodoro, start with small things, constantly do it, switch off distractions, etc (which i do too in some form) but let me tell you an unorthodox technique I came up with that was inspired by this tweet - https://twitter.com/tkiramadden/status/1255516715502522370 For me, I don't always have an issue being productive when I am in the zone but I have a problem of…
Gross. That isn't creativity. That is a bastardization of creativity produced from fear.
Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?
#55Not totally life changing, but I have a playlist on Spotify that's roughly a pomodoro period long (~25 minutes). At the end of the playlist is a song that is very different to the other songs. I put in effort to not listen to these songs while not working and to play it when I want to focus. Audio triggers work for me, and the "break" song can be a great non-distracting time marker.
I have Alfa Mist and BADBADNOTGOOD (idk the genre. fusion jazz? acoustic?) as the main timer and Linkin Park's Session from Meteora as the time marker.
Here's my playlist if you want a try: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1CZk671K0M11aNf4LuHFbD?si=...
Re: Ask HN: What's your #1 productivity hack?
#56The nature of my work right now requires me to attend a lot of meetings (20+ meetings per-week on average), so what I do is block 2 days in a week for no-meeting days, which is Wednesday and Friday. I use these no-meeting days as a time to work on the tasks that require deep work and to get things done.