The full catalog
Everything for productivity
762 entries pulled from 62 stacks. Items are ordered by how many tracked people are on record about them, including discussion, use and recommendations.
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Items
326 entries
Reset- HabitFREE, no cost01
Daily reading
A fixed daily reading block, usually books rather than feeds
On record from 25 of 62 tracked people: 23 do it, 2 recommend it - HabitFREE, no cost02
Journaling
Writing to unload the mind, usually first thing or last thing
On record from 14 of 62 tracked people: 13 do it, 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost03
Early rising
A fixed, early wake time, often before anyone else is awake
On record from 11 of 62 tracked people: 10 do it, 1 has discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost04
Daily writing
Write something every day, published or not
On record from 10 of 62 tracked people: 8 do it, 2 recommend it - ProtocolFREE, no cost05
Environment design
Change the room instead of relying on willpower
On record from 7 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 5 recommend it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.06
Home gym
A private training space at home, from a garage rack to a fully equipped room
On record from 7 of 62 tracked people: 5 do it, 2 recommend it - ProtocolFREE, no cost07
Time blocking
Give every hour of the workday a job before the day starts
On record from 7 of 62 tracked people: 5 do it, 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.08
Atomic Habits
The practical manual for building and breaking habits
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost09
Daily minimum workout
A floor you never drop below: 20 minutes of movement and recovery on your worst day
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 4 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.10
Deep Work
The case that uninterrupted concentration is a rare and valuable skill
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - ProtocolFREE, no cost11
Deep work blocks
Long, scheduled, distraction-free sessions on one cognitively hard task
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 5 do it, 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.12On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 6 do it
- HabitFREE, no cost13
Phone-free first hour
No email, news or social media until you have done something of your own
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 4 do it, 2 recommend it - HabitFREE, no cost14
Weekly review
One scheduled hour a week to close loops and plan the next one
On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 6 do it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.15On record from 5 of 62 tracked people: 5 do it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost16
Identity-based habits
Aim at who you want to become, not the outcome you want to hit
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 4 recommend it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.17On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 4 do it
- HabitFREE, no cost18
Margin notes
Writing in the margins while reading, especially where you disagree with the author
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.19
Readwise
Syncs your highlights and resurfaces them a few at a time
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.20
Standing desk
A desk that raises, so part of the working day happens on your feet
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.21
The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost22
Thinking retreats
Blocks of time cleared of the schedule to sit with one hard problem
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 has discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.23
Website and app blocker
Software that makes distracting sites genuinely unavailable on a schedule
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 2 recommend it - ProtocolFREE, no cost24
Workday shutdown ritual
A fixed end-of-day routine that closes open loops so work stops
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 has discussed it - ProtocolFREE, no cost25
After-action review
Debrief what happened, what should have happened, and what changes
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 1 recommends it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.26
Batch cooking protein
Cook a week of chicken, lean meat or fish in one session so protein is always to hand
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - HabitFREE, no cost27
Deliberate discomfort
Choosing the thing you do not want to do, daily, as its own training
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 2 recommend it - ProtocolFREE, no cost28
Habit stacking
Anchor a new habit to one you already do without thinking
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost29
Habit tracking
Mark the calendar every day you do it, then protect the chain
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.30On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost31
Never miss twice
One missed day is an accident; two is the start of a new habit
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it - AppFREE, no cost32
Notion
Flexible workspace used as a second brain, wiki and task system
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.33
Paper notebook
A bound notebook for thinking on paper away from a screen
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost34
Temptation bundling
Only allow yourself something you want while doing something you avoid
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it, 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.35
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it - HabitFREE, no cost36
Written goal sheet
Goals written down, in numbers, and kept where you see them every morning
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - App$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.37
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe's video editor, the default in most professional edit bays
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.38
Antilibrary
Shelves holding more unread books than read ones, kept that way deliberately
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 recommends it - AppFREE, no cost39
Apple Notes
The note app that ships on every Mac, iPhone and iPad, synced through iCloud
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.40
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins's memoir: abuse, obesity, three Hell Weeks and the tools he built on the way
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.41On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.42On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost43
Deliberate wandering
Unplanned, inefficient exploration kept on purpose as the counterweight to efficiency
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - App$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.44
DEVONthink
DEVONtechnologies
Document and information manager for Mac and iOS with local, indexed databases
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost45
Digital declutter
A 30-day break from optional tech, then reintroduce deliberately
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.46
Eating the same meals every day
A fixed set of meals repeated for weeks so food needs no decisions
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.47
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.48
Elgato Stream Deck
A grid of programmable keys that fire scripts, scenes and app actions
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.49
Extreme Ownership
SEAL combat leadership principles applied to teams and business
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.50
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 study of total absorption and what makes it happen
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.51On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- AppFREE, no cost52
Google Docs
Browser word processor that syncs across devices
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.53
Grok
Chat assistant with live access to what people are posting on X
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost54
Hard thinking before lunch
Book the mentally demanding work for the morning and stop making big calls late in the day
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.55On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.56
Lavalier microphone
Clip-on mic that sits close to the mouth and records a clean voice
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost57
Minimalist training
Short, hard sessions built on a few sets per muscle, drop sets and non-competing supersets
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.58
Neumann KMS 105 microphone
Handheld condenser built for stage vocals, used by some podcasters at a desk
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - HabitFREE, no cost59
Open calendar
An appointment book kept almost empty so most days are free for reading and thinking
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.60
Perplexity
A search tool that answers in prose and cites the pages it read
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.61
Phone lockbox
A lockable box with a timer that puts the phone out of reach for a set period
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost62
Pomodoro technique
Work in timed sprints, usually 25 minutes on and 5 minutes off
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 has discussed it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.63On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost64
Shipping creative work
Publishing on a schedule rather than waiting for the work to feel ready
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 1 recommends it - AppFREE, no cost65On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it
- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.66
Slow Productivity
Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it, 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.67
The 4-Hour Workweek
Automation, elimination and the mini-retirement, from 2007
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - HabitFREE, no cost68
Training first thing
The workout goes before the workday; a session planned for later tends not to happen
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost69
Two-minute rule
Scale any new habit down until it takes under two minutes to start
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it - ProtocolFREE, no cost70
Vision setting
Write down a specific picture of who you are becoming, then filter decisions through it
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost71
Yearly audit
Seven questions and a scroll through the year's photos before setting goals
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
20-slot punch card rule
Imagine a lifetime card with only 20 punches: every big decision has to earn one
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
25 Hours a Day
Building a supplement company while serving as an active duty Army infantry officer
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
3x5 notecard planning
Write the next day's three to five most important tasks on a single index card
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
5 Second Rule countdown
Count 5-4-3-2-1 out loud and move before hesitation talks you out of it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
80/20 analysis
List what produces results and what produces misery, then cut hard
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
A few high-quality decisions a day
Aim for three well-made decisions rather than a hundred rushed ones
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
A high savings rate
Bank a large share of income by spending well below what the income allows
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
ABC goal system
Set three levels for a daily goal so a bad day still counts as progress
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Accountability mirror
Telling yourself the blunt truth in the mirror every day, then fixing it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Act on the thing causing stress
Make the first call or send the first email on whatever is nagging at you
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Action camera
Small waterproof camera mounted to a handlebar, chest or helmet
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Alfred
Mac launcher with system-wide search, clipboard history and text snippets
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Analog and digital desks
Two work surfaces, with nothing electronic allowed on the first one
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no cost
Anki
Free, open-source flashcards that schedule reviews just before you would forget
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Anti-to-do list
A short written list of behaviors to avoid, kept beside the ordinary to-do list
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Apple Watch
Apple's wrist computer for activity, sleep and notifications
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Aqua & Bondi
The iMac G3 and the years Apple spent finishing Mac OS X
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Asking for criticism
Book regular time with your manager and ask what you should be doing better
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Asking for help
Four words, can you help me, used on purpose rather than as a last resort
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Aspirational hourly rate
Setting a personal hourly price far above what you earn, then honoring it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Attention management
Pick what deserves your focus instead of counting the minutes
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Audible
Audiobook service sold as monthly credits or a subscription library
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost
Automatic rules
Decide the behavior once, as a rule, so it is not decided in the moment
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Backward planning
Start from the fixed deadline, list what has to happen before it, then work back
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Bambu Lab 3D printer
Enclosed desktop printer that runs without much tuning
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Batch processing email
Sit down once and clear thirty or a hundred messages in a run
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Penguin Press
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2023 book on vision, work, failure and giving back
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Bench scraper
A stiff steel rectangle for dividing dough and clearing a board
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Beneath the Surface
Michael Phelps's memoir of his early career, written with Brian Cazeneuve
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Blackout poetry
Making a poem by blacking out most of a printed page with a marker
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Blank sheet method
Write what you already know before reading, then add each session in a new color
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Breaking one bad habit at a time
Dropping a single habit every six months and leaving everything else alone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Budget and deadline discipline
Treating the number and the date as hard limits that end the project
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Building a Second Brain
The case for one external note store, and four steps for running it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Camera drone
Folding quadcopter that films from the air, some tracking one person
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Carbon steel wok
A thin steel pan with sloped sides, sold flat-bottomed for Western stoves
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Cast iron skillet
A heavy iron pan that holds its heat when cold food hits it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Challenge network
A named group whose job is to attack your work, not encourage it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Clear Thinking
Parrish on the ordinary moments where a decision is really made
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
CODE method
Capture, organize, distill, express: four steps from reading to output
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Commonplace book
A notebook kept only for quotes and passages copied out of what you read
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Cursor
AI code editor built on VS Code that edits inside the file
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- HabitFREE, no cost
Daily design
Writing the day ahead in the past tense, then scoring it out of ten at night
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Day One
Journaling app for Apple platforms, Android and the web with encrypted sync
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Day one, week one mentality
Show up every day as prepared as you were on the first day of the job
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Decision journal
Record the reasoning before the outcome is known, then read it back later
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Dedicated writing desk
A desk kept for writing only, separate from the admin setup
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Digital kitchen scale
Weighing ingredients in grams instead of scooping them by volume
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Disagree and commit
State your objection once, then back the decision fully instead of relitigating it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Discipline Equals Freedom
A short, deliberately blunt field manual for self-discipline
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Documenting the journey
Filming and publishing the work in progress, failures included, before it succeeds
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Effortless
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones to do
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
ElevenLabs
Voice tools: text read aloud, and speech turned into text
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Enameled Dutch oven
A lidded cast iron pot under a glass coating, for braises and stock
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Endurance
Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, from the ship breaking up to the rescue
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Energy calendar
Color-code each finished day's calendar by what created energy and what drained it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Essentialism
The disciplined pursuit of less, applied to a career and a calendar
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Evening reset
Clear today's mess and stage tomorrow before you go to bed
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Evening review
Going back over the day at night: what you did, said and could have handled better
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Evernote
Long-running notes app built around clipping and searching everything
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Extended sabbatical
A month or more entirely off work, announced well in advance
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost
FBI feedback method
Say the feeling, then the behavior that caused it, then the impact it had
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Fear-setting
Write down the worst case, how to prevent it, and how to repair it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Feel-Good Productivity
Energy and enjoyment as the engine of getting things done
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Field Notes notebook
Small stapled pocket notebook, 48 pages, sold in three-packs
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Find Your WHY
The workbook companion to Start with WHY, written with David Mead and Peter Docker
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman on time management for a finite life, roughly four thousand weeks long
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - AppFREE, no cost
GitHub
Where code and its review history live
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Give and Take
Why givers cluster at both the bottom and the top of the results
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Head-mounted action camera
A small wide-angle camera on a head strap, filming what the wearer sees
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Hidden Potential
Measuring people by distance climbed rather than height reached
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
High-protein frozen meals
Ready meals chosen for protein and fiber when there is no time to cook
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Home studio
A room set up once for filming, so nothing gets rebuilt each shoot
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Read a Book
Adler and Van Doren's manual on the four levels of reading
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens on the slip-box method behind Niklas Luhmann's output
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish's 1980 parenting manual on listening
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
I Promise
Picture book of daily promises about school, effort and community, for young children
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
iA Writer
Plain-text markdown editor with almost nothing on screen
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Immersion blender
A stick blender that goes into the pot rather than the pot into a jug
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Implementation intentions
Decide in advance: I will do X at TIME in PLACE
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Inbox zero
Empty the inbox by deciding once where every message goes
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Infinite mindset
Play for staying in the game rather than for beating this quarter's number
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Insight
Tasha Eurich on self-awareness and the blind spots you cannot see
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Insta360 Link
Gimbal-mounted 4K webcam that follows the person on camera
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no cost
Instapaper
Save articles now and read them later on a plain, offline page
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Intermediate packets
Finish one small reusable piece per work session, not the whole project
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost
Inversion
Ask what would guarantee failure, then avoid those things
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques
Photographed step-by-step instruction in classical French kitchen method
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Japanese chef's knife
A thinner, harder blade ground for slicing rather than for heavy chopping
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Jotting ideas the night before
Rough notes at bedtime, organized writing the next morning
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Kagi
Paid search engine with no ads, where you can rank or block domains yourself
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Keep Going
Austin Kleon's ten rules for staying creative once the work stops being new
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Keeping a streak
One thing every day, with an unbroken count of days as the rule
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Keyboard Maestro
Stairways Software
macOS macro tool that fires multi-step actions from a hotkey or typed string
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Lamy Safari fountain pen
Entry-level fountain pen with a molded grip and swappable steel nibs
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Leaders Eat Last
Why some teams pull together and others fall apart
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Lenten fasting
Forty days of giving something up, plus fast and meat-free days, in the Christian calendar
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Linchpin
Godin's 2010 argument for doing work nobody else could have handed in
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Logbook
A few lines a day recording what happened, not what you thought about it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost
Long-term games with long-term people
Picking work, partners and industries where you keep meeting the same people
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Magic Keyboard for iPad
Apple
Apple's keyboard case, with a trackpad, that turns an iPad into a typing machine
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Maker days and manager days
Whole days given to creative work or to other people, never both
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Making the bed
The first completed task of the day, done before anything else
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Mandoline slicer
A fixed blade in a frame that you run food across for even slices
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Marantz microphone
Studio microphone run on phantom power through an outboard preamp
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius writing to himself, the founding text of practical Stoicism
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Memento mori reminder
A daily, deliberate reminder that you are going to die
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Microburst
Set a timer for ten minutes, then stop when it goes off
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson on self-justification
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Moleskine Daily Diary
Hardcover dated planner with one page for each day of the year
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Monk Mode
Shutting out the world for months to finish one large piece of work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Habit$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Morning newspapers
A stack of print papers read start to finish before the working day begins
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Morning puttering
A slow, unscheduled first hour or two: coffee, the paper, breakfast, no meetings
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Multi-input desk monitor
Desk display that takes a computer over USB-C and a console over HDMI
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Never Finished
Goggins's second book: what he did after the first one made him famous
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
No Limits: The Will to Succeed
Michael Phelps on the preparation behind his Beijing gold medals
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
No meetings
Declining meetings and answering in writing instead
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
No meetings with strangers
A standing no to anyone with no existing reason to be meeting you
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
No television
Cutting TV out of solo hours, keeping it as something done with other people
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Protocol$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Notecard system
Reading with a pen, then moving the best passages onto 4x6 index cards by theme
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Obituary test
Decide what you want your obituary to say, then live so as to deserve it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - AppFREE, no cost
Obsidian
Markdown note app that stores linked plain-text files in a folder you own
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - App$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
OmniFocus
The Omni Group
Task manager for Apple devices built on projects, tags and saved perspectives
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
On Food and Cooking
Harold McGee's reference on what ingredients are and what heat does to them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
One Page Miracle
One sheet naming what you want in relationships, work, money and health
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Originals
How people champion new ideas and hold out against groupthink
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - AppFREE, no cost
Overcast
iPhone podcast player with speed control and silence trimming
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Paper time-block planner
A physical notebook for planning the day hour by hour
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
PARA method
Sort every note and file into projects, areas, resources or archives
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
Refillable brush pen with real bristles, made for drawing and lettering
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Permission Marketing
The 1999 book arguing for messages people actually asked to receive
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Personal Quarterly Offsite
Companies do this every quarter; the same session run for one person
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Phone calls after a workout
Spend the flat half hour after training on calls, not on hard work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Pilot G2 pen
Refillable gel pen sold in tip widths from 0.38mm up to 1.0mm bold
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Pocket Casts
Podcast player with speed control, silence trimming and a queue that syncs
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Portable audio recorder
Handheld recorder that captures sound apart from the camera
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Portable podcast kit
A small case of consumer recording gear that travels to the guest
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Positive framing
State the outcome you want instead of the one you are trying to avoid
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Pre-Mortem
Name what will derail this before you start, not in the postmortem
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Predictive cooking thermometer
A multi-sensor probe that finds the center of a roast and predicts finish time
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Printed guided journal
A prompted paper journal with the same short questions every morning and evening
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Progressive summarization
Compress a note in layers, adding one only when you open it again
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Public library
Borrowing instead of buying, and browsing shelves instead of recommendations
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Protocol$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Public speaking course
A structured class in speaking to a room, taken to get past the fear of doing it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Purple Cow
Godin's 2003 case for building the marketing into the product itself
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Quiet
Susan Cain on introverts in a culture built for talkers
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Reading books out of order
Many books open at once, opened at whatever section fits your mood that day
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
ReadKit
RSS and read-later client for Mac, iPhone and iPad
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Readwise Reader
Read-later app holding articles, PDFs, newsletters and RSS in one queue
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Reflected Best Self Exercise
Ask twenty people for a story of you at your best, then find the pattern
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Regret minimization framework
Picture yourself at 80 looking back, then pick the option you would regret least
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
reMarkable
E ink tablet you write on with a stylus
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- HabitFREE, no cost
Rereading a small set of books
Going back through the best hundred books repeatedly rather than chasing new ones
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Rereading your notebooks
Opening old notebooks to today's date in previous years, as a writing prompt
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Rewriting notes by hand
Copying the same material out longhand, daily, until it sticks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Saved answers to common requests
Write the reply properly once, then send it every time it repeats
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Saying I don't know
Admit uncertainty out loud instead of producing a plausible answer
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Saying I get to instead of I have to
Swap one verb in your self-talk and the daily grind reads as a privilege
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Saying No Gracefully
A three step script for declining without wrecking the relationship
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- ProtocolFREE, no cost
Second-order thinking
Keep asking and then what until the picture of the consequences stops changing
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Self-inking date stamp
Rubber stamp with adjustable bands that prints the day's date on a page
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Sharpie permanent marker
Fine-point permanent marker, the standard tool for blacking out text
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight's memoir of building Nike from shoes sold out of a car trunk to a global brand
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Show Your Work!
Austin Kleon's ten chapters on sharing the process rather than the product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Six-page narrative memo
A written memo read silently at the start of the meeting, in place of slides
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Skills first, passion later: an argument against following your passion
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Softbox LED light
Diffused LED panels set either side of the screen for calls and filming
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Sony Alpha 7
A 35mm mirrorless camera used as the studio webcam for virtual talks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Sony ZV-E10 II
Sony's video-first mirrorless camera, often pressed into service as a webcam
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Sound Devices MixPre-3 II
Field recorder and USB interface that writes its own backup track to an SD card
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Sound Devices USBPRE2
Two-channel field and studio preamp that connects over USB
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Specific knowledge
Building the kind of skill nobody knows how to teach, by following real curiosity
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Start with WHY
Simon Sinek's first book, on leading with purpose before product
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
Staying put
Not switching jobs, fields or cities, so skills and trust keep compounding
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon's ten-chapter manifesto on borrowing your way to your own work
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Stiff metal spatula
A rigid steel turner with a beveled edge, for pressing and scraping
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Strategic quitting
Setting your quit conditions in advance, then quitting without drama
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Tascam US-2x2
Two-input USB interface for a first podcast setup
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Teleprompter
Screen that scrolls a script over the camera lens
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Teleprompter beam splitter
Angled glass over a screen so the camera sits where the other face is
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
The 1-2-3 Method
One essential task, two urgent ones, three maintenance items, then stop
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins's first book, on the countdown that gets you moving
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The 5 Types of Wealth
Bloom's 2025 book on measuring wealth as time, social, mental, physical and financial
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Possibility
Twelve practices from a conductor and a therapist for changing how you see things
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Art of Spending Money
On using money rather than accumulating it, and why no formula fits everyone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - HabitFREE, no cost
The brain check question
Asking whether a choice is good or bad for your brain before you make it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll on the paper notebook system and what it is really for
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Diary of a CEO
33 laws for business and life, drawn from hundreds of interviews
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Dip
When to quit and when to push through the hard middle of a project
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Essentialism Planner
A 90 day paper planner built around one priority a day
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Food Lab
Home cooking worked out by experiment, grown from the Serious Eats column
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
The Golden Circle
Explain why, then how, then what, in that order
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Courses
Recorded lecture series on history, science and economics, on disc or by subscription
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Great Mental Models
Four illustrated volumes of thinking tools taken from several disciplines at once
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Infinite Game
Business as a game with no finish line, built on James Carse's idea
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday's first Stoic book, on turning problems into the way forward
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller and Jay Papasan on the one priority that makes everything else easier
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Outsiders
William Thorndike on eight CEOs who ran their companies for cash and capital allocation
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The PARA Method
Short guide to sorting every file and note into four folders
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Practice
Short numbered sections on treating creative work as a daily practice
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
The Productivity Field Guide
MacSparky
Video course and book that builds a personal system from your roles, not your tasks
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Psychology of Money
Nineteen short chapters on how people behave with money, not on what to buy
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Rock Says...
Dwayne Johnson's 2000 autobiography, written with Joe Layden at the peak of his WWF run
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Second Mountain
David Brooks on the commitments that follow the first climb of career and status
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
The smallest viable audience
Naming the fewest people you need to serve well, then building only for them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Tao of Charlie Munger
Munger's lines on investing, business and living, gathered into one place
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield's short book on resistance and turning pro
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Wok
Nearly 700 pages on one pan, its physics and the cooking it makes possible
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Think Again
Rethinking and unlearning as skills worth practicing on purpose
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Kahneman's map of the two systems behind your judgments
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 has discussed it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Marketing
The 2018 book that folds thirty years of Godin's teaching into one framework
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
This Is Strategy
Strategy as a long commitment to a change, not as a set of tactics
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Timery
Time tracker for Toggl, built around saved timers, widgets and Shortcuts
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no costOn record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
- Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Together is Better
An illustrated fable about asking for help, made to be given away
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Tools of Titans
Routines, habits and tactics from 200+ podcast guests
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2012 memoir, from Thal to Mr. Olympia to Sacramento
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Travel tripod
Folding tripod small enough for a backpack, for fixed shots
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no cost
Trello
Board and card app for tracking tasks and projects
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Tribes
A 2008 book on leading a group that already wants to go somewhere
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Twelve favorite problems
Hold a dozen open questions in mind and test what you read against them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Two-a-day training
Splitting the day: an aerobic session in the morning, strength work later on
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Two-way door decisions
Sort choices by how reversible they are, then move fast on the reversible ones
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Typewriter
A manual or electric typewriter for drafting, with nothing else on the machine
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Uncomfortable conversations
Say out loud that the conversation will be hard before you start it
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Uni-ball roller pen
Fine-tip roller pen for handwritten notes and math
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara on how Eleven Madison Park treated the people who walked in
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
USB-C power bank
A battery big enough to charge a tablet or laptop, not only a phone
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Walking meetings
Taking the conversation on foot instead of around a table, and ending it with the walk
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Whiteboard
Wall or freestanding board for working problems out vertically
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
WHY discovery exercise
Ask a close friend why you are friends, then listen for what they say about themselves
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Wok spatula
A long shovel-shaped turner contoured to the curve of a wok
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - HabitFREE, no cost
Work and downtime device modes
Two profiles on one device, switched on a clock, so the machine changes job
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - App$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Working Copy
Git client for iPhone and iPad, with an editor and a diff view
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - Habit$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.
Working with a life coach
Regular sessions with a coach who sets priorities and holds you to them
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - AppFREE, no cost
X (Twitter)
Short public posts, used by some people as a thinking tool
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Yesterbox
Answer only yesterday's email today, so the queue never grows
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
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