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221 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 21 with a note, 12 in a Weekly Thing.
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- medium.com 8, zenhabits.net 8, nytimes.com 5, seths.blog 5, lethain.com 4
2026
- Leaders Are Learners | jay tha
- Write Things Down
- The truth about being a manager
- The Value of Getting Closer to the Work
- write for one person
- The 5 Pillars of Executive Function: A Checkup for Decision-Making and Reliability
- Three Decisions That Actually Get You to the C‑Suite
- A Field Guide to Learning - Bite of an Apple
- Attention and effort
- I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21
- Weight Loss for Leaders
- How I rebooted my social life - by James O'Malley
- Relationship Resolutions for Leaders
- The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
2025
- The power of the Someday/Maybe list - by Robert Talbert
- How to Give a Good Talk | SIGPLAN Blog
- The Value of Space in Meetings, Schedules, and Plans
- The No List: My First App and Why Saying No Matters
- The Management Skill Nobody Talks About
- The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
- How to Maintain Weight Loss
- Recommitting to our why, what, and how
- 27 Notes On Growing Old(er) - by Ian Leslie - The Ruffian
- Notes to myself
- A simple guide to You've Met Me POAPs
- The Five Layers of Sharing Thoughts and Ideas
- Make Something Heavy - Anu Atluru
- Career advice in 2025.
- Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it
- I am rich and have no idea what to do with my life
- My 1st year living in the U.S.A. - Andrea Contino - Go With The Flow
2024
- The thought that counts
- Empathy is a Survival Skill — Laura Killingbeck
- The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying
- Rethinking what work-life balance means - Three-fold Thursday
- A Leader’s Guide to Overcommunication - by David Laribee
- Creativity Fundamentally Comes From Memorization
- Managing Your Calendar and the Stress It Creates
- Managing Oneself
- Winnie Lim » my experience on starting exercise from zero
- How Important Are Credentials? by David O’Hara
- The 7 Keys to Living Longer and Healthier
- Get your work recognized: write a brag document
2023
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- Ultra-processed foods: the 19 things everyone needs to know | Food
- How to Scale Yourself Down
- 5 Ways to Reduce Your Stress Levels
- How to stay fit as you age
- YNAB Coaches: A Personal Trainer for Your Finances
- Building personal and organizational prestige
- How to Do Great Work
- The Seven Dispositions of Task Management
- Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile.
- Is This a Good Idea?
- Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
- What I am learning from working out daily for 1,001+ consecutive days
- Some Things I’ve Learned in 2022
- Routine | Calendar, Notes & Task Management
- The Secret To Better Habits in 2023
- Little screens and productivity
2022
- 52 things I learned in 2022 | Magnetic Notes
- Deep Sleep: What Is It and How to Get More
- Time Flies
- Don’t think to write, write to think
- Why are you so busy?
- A less exhausting guide to podcasting in 2022
- Five Ways to Write Like The Economist
- 100 Rules — Personal Philosophy
- Why aren't smart people happier? - by Adam Mastroianni
- The Complete Guide to Rollups
- How to Put Life on Easy Mode
- A Neuroscientist Prepares for Death
- Giving What We Can Community: Give More, Give More Effectively · Giving What We Can
2021
2020
- Three things digital ethics can learn from medical ethics
- Write more. Meet less. Reflections on the memo culture.
- Productivity Primer 14
- Commit to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Every Day
- Write like a human
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice - Equality Includes You
- Top Tools for Eliminating Resistance to The GTD Weekly Review
- Bartleby - A manager’s manifesto for 2020 | Business
- Taking on New Years Resolutions – Examples in Diet and Exercise
- A Decade of Self-Control
- A Seedbed for the Growing To Come
2019
- On Keeping A Daily Log
- Quality and effort
- The Power of Repetition (Part 1 of 6)
- The 3 Best Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)
- Do People Think You Show Too Little or Too Much Emotion?
- Where to find the hours to make it happen
- How to plan and write pieces of any length
- How to Be a Better Writer - Better Humans
- 22 Books That Expand Your Mind and Change The Way You Live - Darius Foroux
- Work Like A Boss
- 10 Calendar & Meeting Management Skills
- Homerun's guide to Diversity & Inclusion
- The hardest leadership advice to follow
- The Simple Genius of Checklists, from B-17 to the Apollo Missions | Inside Nuclino
- The Attention Diet
2018
2017
- Life Stack
- Recommit to the values that built Etsy and aimed to build a better world for us all
- Why Do Americans Smile So Much?
- Anna Vital - fundersandfounders: How to Be Productive - The...
- The Main Reason Changing Your Life is Tough
- Massive GTD Resource List : zen habits
- The Five Minute Journal
- Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure
- Personal ☤ Values
- The 22 Steps to Getting What You Want in 2017
2016
- Learning to Just Be a Person
- 10 Questions to Capture the Year in Your Journal —Day One “There’s always a certain degree of anticipation—an excitement in the air—for the turn of the calendar at the end of the year.”
- Your service just went down. Here's what you do next.
- Minimal Mistakes
- To-Do Lists Are Not the Answer to Getting Things Done – Personal Growth
- Clean Up Your Phone for Increased Productivity
- TED talks that could help you become more productive
- The Trouble With Due Dates - OmniFocus
- Listening to your commitments
- Why are you doing?
- Your Calendar is Your Humanity
- We’re 7! How has GTD helped us get this far?
- Take a GTD Challenge Around Your “Stuff”
- Why I Love Morning Pages
- Why GTD is not Time Management
- Give yourself permission to have work-life balance
- “I Trust You”
- 52 things I learned in 2015
2015
- Good Judgment Project
- Seven Things I Did To Reboot My Life
- Use GTD to facilitate Work-Life Integration
- Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
- Relax for the same result
- 10 Lessons I Learned from a Year of Productivity Experiments
- Journaling Joy
- 30 Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of “How Was Your Day?” — The Synapse
- Is Something Lost When We Use Mindfulness as a Productivity Tool?
- werve.net | Running Effective Retrospectives
- Gestimer - For those little reminders during the day
- 60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days
- The Importance of Keeping A Notebook | Make a Mess: Everyday Creativity
- Professional Spotlight: Shivani Khanna
- What My Morning Journal Looks Like | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
2014
- Zen Habits Book | Mastering the Art of Change
- How Successful People Stay Calm | Dr. Travis Bradberry
- Getting Better at Getting Better
- Gift/Product Recommendations That I’ve Actually Used For At Least A Year
- GTD in 15 minutes
- Better Things
- How Successful People Stay Productive and In Control
- Planning your sauna
- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
- Scott Hanselman's Complete List of Productivity Tips
- Thoughts on Writing
2013
2012
2011
- How to Dispel Your Illusions by Freeman Dyson
- Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better?
- 30 Days to Success
- The woman with 100 personalities
- Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
- Lars Leafblad Association of Fundraising Professionals Article
- Preschool: The Best Job-Training Program
- Why working at home is both awesome and horrible
- Lessons Learned: Winter is coming
- Scott Adams on the Benefits of Boredom
- Does class size really matter?
- Time
- The Complete Guide to Not Giving a Fuck
- 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years
- My list of ideas, if you're looking for inspiration jacquesmattheij.com
- The purpose of gamification
- ‘It’s Going to Take A While’
- What to Do When "Doing What You Love" Isn't an Option
- How Little Sleep Can You Get Away With?
- Explaining your job
- What Lucky People Do Different
- Why We Buy: How to Avoid 10 Costly Cognitive Biases
- Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
- Create Time to Change Your Life
- Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency
- How to Beat Procrastination
- Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency
- The Two Paths to Success
- A Food Manifesto for the Future
- Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
- Weightshift — Memo: The Personal Page
- 10 lessons for the future from women in media
- List of common misconceptions
2010
- Change This - Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself
- Quitting Smoking: The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done
- Finding Time
- Good and Bad Procrastination
- Information overload, the early years
- Wandering Mind Is a Sign of Unhappiness
- The curse of habits
- Kurt Vonnegut's advice to young writers
- You are what you think
- Treat Your Mind as You Would a Private Garden