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Being Productive Starts With Knowing Your Limits
The limits of productivity
There are limits to what your body is capable of doing. A productivity strategy will only work for you if you know how to make it work with your current habits, routines, mental strength.
Organize your day around your physical and mental energy. And do more of what works for you.
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1:1 meetings
1:1 meetings matter. It is important to nurture that essential employee-manager relationship. But it still not easy to get right.
Under pressures, managers are still juggl...
1:1 category
The goal of an effective 1:1 is not an update from your direct report or for you to lay down some instructions. It's a conversation. It's a chance to hear about your direct reports' ideas for your product, their career goals, and possibly their opinion of their performance.
Keep a list of three potential topics ready for discussion. When they say they have nothing to discuss, you can jumpstart the conversation with one of your items.
Manager's best tool
Your most precious resource is your own time and energy. When you spend it on your team, it helps build healthy relationships.
Your job as a manager isn't to give advice or 'save the day.'' It's to empower your reports to find the answer themselves. If you want to understand what's going on, ask. Let her lead the conversation while you listen and probe.
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Questions to ask before trying biohacking
- Is it scientifically sound?
- Is it logically sound? (i.e. is there a sound explanation behind the tactic?)
- Is the estimated cost (risk, money, time/energy) ...
Sleep Hygiene
Objective: Get plenty of restorative deep and REM sleep on a regular basis.
Key tactics:
- Measure the stages of your sleep
- Block blue light 3-4 hours before sleep
- Have your bedroom dark and humid
- Wake at exactly the same time each morning
- Evaluate things that seem to help or disrupt sleep.
Optimal nutrition
Objectives: Minimize insulin levels, maximize glucose disposal, optimize various growth factors towards things we want (e.g. muscle) and away from what we don’t want (e.g. cancer).
Key tactics:
- Do not eat sugar in any form. Sugar is poison
- Do not eat processed foods. Eat natural food instead
- Do not eat cheap industrially-farmed animal products
- Eat mostly plants
- Eat organic when possible, especially when discussing animal products
- Try keto diet.
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Meaningful productivity
The best work happens in short intensive deep work spurts (1–3 hours, no distractions).
Your best thinking will actually happen while you’re away from your work, “recovering.” B...
The first 3 hours of the day
...are your most precious for maximized productivity.
Your brain is most attuned first thing in the morning, and so are your energy levels. Consequently, the best time to do your best work is during this time.
The “90–90–1” rule
Spend the first 90 minutes of your workday on your #1 priority, nothing else.
Zero distractions. Just get that work done.