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Everything for focus
531 entries pulled from 54 stacks. Default order is consensus: the number of tracked people who have publicly backed each one.
65 entries
Reset- Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.01
Deliberate cold exposure
Cold showers or ice baths used deliberately, usually a few minutes at a time
Backed by 25 of 54 stacks: 19 do it, 0 recommend it, 6 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.02
Caffeine
The most-used performance drug in the world, timing-sensitive
Backed by 13 of 54 stacks: 9 do it, 1 recommend it, 3 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.03
Creatine monohydrate
The best-evidenced supplement in sports nutrition, taken at 3-5g a day
Backed by 11 of 54 stacks: 9 do it, 2 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.04
Omega-3 (EPA/DHA)
Fish or algae oil, often 1-2g EPA daily
Backed by 7 of 54 stacks: 6 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.05
Deep Work
The case that uninterrupted concentration is a rare and valuable skill
Backed by 6 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 5 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.06
Bridge
Contract bridge, played at a table or online, several sessions a week
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 2 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.07
Business Adventures
John Brooks's twelve New Yorker stories about Wall Street and 1960s corporate America
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 2 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.08
Digital Minimalism
A philosophy for using much less technology, on purpose
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.09
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 2 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.10
L-theanine
Amino acid from tea used for calm focus, or with caffeine
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 2 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.11Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt on what smartphones and social media did to childhood after 2010
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.13Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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Website and app blocker
Software that makes distracting sites genuinely unavailable on a schedule
Backed by 2 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 2 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.15
Alpha-GPC
Choline source taken before workouts or hard cognitive work
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.16
Antilibrary
Shelves holding more unread books than read ones, kept that way deliberately
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.17
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.18
Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.19
Bulletproof Coffee
Coffee blended with grass-fed butter and C8 MCT oil, drunk in place of breakfast
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.20
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
The book that took brain imaging arguments about mental health to a general audience
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.21Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.23
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.24
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.25
Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.26Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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Heavily Meditated
Dave Asprey on shortcuts to deep meditative states with breath, feedback and pain
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.28
How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.29
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.30
Jigsaw puzzles
Thousand-piece puzzles as a screen-free way to switch the mind off
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Supplement$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.31
MCT oil (C8)
Caprylic acid from coconut oil, taken for a quick rise in ketones
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.32
Memory Rescue
Eleven risk factors for memory loss, organized under the BRIGHT MINDS mnemonic
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.33
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer's year training for the US Memory Championship, and what memory really is
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.34
Morning newspapers
A stack of print papers read start to finish before the working day begins
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.35
Notecard system
Reading with a pen, then moving the best passages onto 4x6 index cards by theme
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.36
Paper time-block planner
A physical notebook for planning the day hour by hour
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.37
Perplexity
A search tool that answers in prose and cites the pages it read
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.38
Phone lockbox
A lockable box with a timer that puts the phone out of reach for a set period
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.39
Psych
Judd Biasiotto on the mental training behind record-setting powerlifting
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.40Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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Saffron
The spice taken as a standardized extract rather than a pinch in the pan
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.42
Same as Ever
Twenty three short stories about the parts of human behavior that never change
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.43
Source Code
Bill Gates's 2025 memoir of childhood, Lakeside, Harvard and the start of Microsoft
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.44
Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.45
Stillness Is the Key
The third of Ryan Holiday's Stoic books, on the mind, spirit and body at rest
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.46
Table tennis
Ping pong played as a brain workout, part aerobic and part fast decision-making
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.47
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.48
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch on good explanations, and why the growth of knowledge has no ceiling
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.49
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.50
The Bulletproof Diet
Dave Asprey's high-fat, low-toxin eating plan, and the origin of the butter coffee
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.51
The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.52
The Great Courses
The Great Courses
Recorded lecture series on history, science and economics, on disc or by subscription
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 1 do it, 0 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.53
The Great Depression: A Diary
A lawyer's day-by-day record of the 1930s, written with no idea it was economics
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.54
The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.55
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe's plain-language introduction to a ten-minute daily practice
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.56
The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey's 1974 classic on quieting self-criticism to perform under pressure
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.57
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.58
The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.59
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley's case that trade and specialization, not intelligence, drove human progress
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.60
The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.61
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.62
Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.63
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 0 recommend it, 1 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.64
This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.65
This Is Water
The Kenyon commencement speech by the author of Infinite Jest, about a 15-minute read
Backed by 1 of 54 stacks: 0 do it, 1 recommend it, 0 have discussed it
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