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Productivity

Getting To The Top 1% Of Amazon Engineers - Productivity Tips From A Life Engineered

  • The key to productivity is doing more of what matters and less of what doesn't.
    Being busy and being productive are not the same thing. Running around in circles is busy. Going toward your destination is productive. It's easy to be busy. It's hard to be productive.
    Farnam Street

Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent. Your reputation isn't built on your best day. It's built on your worst FS

Start small and learn fast. Your first move doesn't need to be perfect; it just needs to teach you something. Focus more on the next small step that moves you closer to the goal. Motion creates momentum, and momentum reveals opportunities that standing still never could.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Wealth creation is an evolutionarily recent positive-sum game. Status is an old zero-sum gam. N.Ravikant

Every day work

  • double check your morning focus TODO list: most impactful task first
  • meetings only in the afternoon
  • Block the first three hours of the day for the most important task, no interruptions
  • Cellphone upside down, no sound, check notifications only after lunch

Happiness

  • Stop overthinking:
  • if you tried and you failed.. nice try!
  • if you’re trying to sleep.. everything else is useless, just deep breathing and sleep.
  • if someone else did something bad to you, you can’t control it. Let it go.

  • Don’t skip gym. Your brain also needs that.

  • “You are better equipped to deal with stress when you are moving. When you feel tense or frustrated or worried, it is difficult to think your way into feeling better. The more you think about the situation, the larger it becomes in your mind. Trying to think your way out of it often leads to a spiral of overthinking and rumination. https://jamesclear.com/3-2-1/december-19-2024

Enlightenment (peace) is the space between thoughts.
Eckart Tolle

Routine

eg: work from home

22:00 alarm to stop everything and go to sleep
only reading from paper or an eBook something you like

6:30 alarm with low volume and no vibration.
Repeat each 10 mins to no to wake up tired

7:30 breakfast and clean something

→ no phone, no emails, no socials

8:00 - 9:30 focused work

9:30 - 10:00 daily meeting

10:30 - 12:00 focused work

12:30 - 13:00 work out

13:00 - 14:00 lunch

14:00 - 18:00 meetings, emails, documentation, tests…

Conversations

  • Dare to disagree
  • "Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn — and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving." - Dale Carnegie