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2026 34

  1. The Good Thing About Hard Things
  2. It’s Time to Investigate the AI Labs
  3. Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
  4. Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.
  5. Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
  6. Are We at War with AI Agent “Civilizations”?
  7. Has AI Gone Rogue?
  8. On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  9. Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
  10. Why Reading Matters
  11. Beware of Productivity Paradoxes
  12. Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling”
  13. AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.
  14. Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?
  15. The Pope vs. Silicon Valley
  16. On God and LLMs
  17. The Dark Side of the Jevons Paradox
  18. Easy is Overrated
  19. On Bottlenecks and Productivity
  20. Who Asked For This?
  21. Brandon Sanderson vs. AI Art
  22. Is Claude Mythos “Terrifying” or Just Hype?
  23. In Defense of Thinking
  24. Avoiding Digital Productivity Traps
  25. Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier?
  26. The Original Attention Crisis
  27. What Do Social Media Companies Fear? Time Management.
  28. Film Students Can No Longer Sit Through Films
  29. What I Learned from MasterClass
  30. The Dangers of “Vibe Reporting” About AI
  31. Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition?
  32. What’s Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now?
  33. Be Wary of Digital Deskilling
  34. Why Didn’t AI “Join the Workforce” in 2025?

2025 35

  1. On Paperbacks and TikTok
  2. Australia Just Kicked Kids Off Social Media. (Is the U.S. Next?)
  3. Why is the Internet Becoming TV?
  4. David Grann and the Deep Life
  5. When it Comes to AI: Think Inside the Box
  6. Why Can’t AI Empty My Inbox?
  7. Forget Chatbots. You Need a Notebook.
  8. Why Are We Talking About Superintelligence?
  9. What If Lincoln Had a Smartphone?
  10. Is Sora the Beginning of the End for OpenAI?
  11. What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Reducing Phone Use
  12. The Great Alienation
  13. The Great Lock In of 2025
  14. Does WiFi Make Students Smarter?
  15. On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil Society
  16. On the Reverse Flynn Effect
  17. Does Work-Life Balance Make You Mediocre?
  18. What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
  19. On Additive and Extractive Technologies
  20. On Engineered Wonder
  21. No One Knows Anything About AI
  22. Dispatch From Vermont
  23. Don’t Ignore Your Moral Intuition About Phones
  24. Is AI Making Us Lazy?
  25. An Important New Study on Phones and Kids
  26. Dispatch from Disneyland
  27. Why Can’t We Tame AI?
  28. Are We Too Concerned About Social Media?
  29. The Workload Fairy Tale
  30. AI and Work (Some Predictions)
  31. Back to the (Internet) Future
  32. Productivity Rain Dances
  33. Let Brandon Cook
  34. The TikTok Ban Is About More Than TikTok
  35. Lessons from YouTube’s Extreme Makers

2024 17

  1. The Tao of Cal
  2. After You Vote: Unplug
  3. The Perfect Cheating Machine?
  4. When Time Management Was Easy
  5. Dispatch from Herman Melville’s Farm
  6. Dispatch from a Writing Shed
  7. On Ultra-Processed Content
  8. Manchester United Embraces Pseudo-Productivity
  9. Do We Need AI to Revolutionize Work?
  10. Two Chances to See Me Next Week
  11. Can You Tweet Your Way to Impact?
  12. ChatGPT Can’t Plan. This Matters.
  13. Come See Me Saturday in DC + TikTok Falters
  14. How the Acquired Podcast Became a Sensation
  15. Heschel on the Joys of Slowness
  16. My new book: Slow Productivity
  17. On Slow Writing

2023 22

  1. On Metrics and Resolve
  2. Standing Up to Technology
  3. Neil Gaiman’s Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet
  4. Should This Meeting Have Been an Email?
  5. The Quiet Workflow Revolution
  6. On Disruption and Distraction
  7. On Tire Pressure and Productivity
  8. On Tools and the Aesthetics of Work
  9. We Don’t Need a New Twitter
  10. Edsger Dijkstra’s One-Day Workweek
  11. When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
  12. On the Slow Productivity of John Wick
  13. The End of Screens?
  14. On Kids and Smartphones
  15. Danielle Steel and the Tragic Appeal of Overwork
  16. My Thoughts on ChatGPT
  17. On Taylor Koekkoek’s Defiant Disconnection
  18. Meta Rediscovers the Cubicle
  19. On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet
  20. Pliny the Younger on Happy and Honorable Seclusion
  21. On Email and Horses
  22. Guillermo del Toro’s Inspiration Machine

2022 34

  1. On Quiet Quitting
  2. On Teenage Luddites
  3. Ann Patchett on Scheduling Creativity
  4. What Happened When Zapier Cancelled Meetings for a Week? (Hint: Not Much)
  5. Did Early Humans Use To-Do Lists?
  6. Larry June’s Slow Productivity
  7. On Michael Crichton’s Busy Ambition
  8. Professio sano in vitam sanam (on balancing work and life)
  9. On Vampires and Method Writing
  10. Brandon Sanderson Built an Underground Lair in Suburban Utah
  11. Your Work Matters. Build Your Schedule Accordingly.
  12. Whitman in the Knapsack: Mary Oliver and the Power of Walking in Nature
  13. The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard
  14. New Study Confirms the Value of Solitude
  15. TikTok’s Poison Pill
  16. LBJ’s Poolside Phone and the Connectivity Revolution
  17. The 3-Hour Fields Medal: A Slow Productivity Case Study
  18. On Wendell Berry’s Move from NYU to a Riverside Cabin
  19. Jack Carr’s Writing Cabin
  20. Inbox Pause? How About an Inbox Reset?
  21. Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less Anxious
  22. My “Oldest” Productivity Strategy
  23. Aziz Ansari’s Digital Minimalism
  24. The Real Problem with Twitter
  25. Smartphones vs. Science: On Distraction and the Suppression of Genius
  26. John McPhee’s Slow Productivity
  27. The Books I Read in February 2022
  28. Brandon Sanderson’s Advice for Doing Hard Things
  29. Nathan Chen Didn’t Bring His Phone to the Olympics
  30. Life of Focus is Now Open
  31. On the Structured Pursuit of Depth
  32. Watch Me Answer Your Questions
  33. The Books I Read in December 2021
  34. What Happened When This Online Business Owner Quit Social Media?

2021 39

  1. Analog January: The No Twitter Challenge
  2. Why I Changed My Email Setup
  3. The Books I Read in November 2021
  4. The Forgotten Tale of George Lucas’s Writing Tower
  5. The Bestselling Magic of the Writing Shed
  6. When Facebook Came Calling…
  7. A Pastor Embraces Slowness
  8. On the Source of Our Drive to Get Things Done
  9. What Would Happen If We Slowed Down?
  10. Revisiting Parkinson’s Law
  11. On the Pandemic and Career Downsizing
  12. A $5.5 Billion Reminder that Email is Not Work
  13. On Pace and Productivity
  14. On the Myth of Big Ideas
  15. On Twitter Addiction and its Discontents
  16. Notes on Quentin Tarantino’s Writing Routine
  17. On the Dynamo and Email
  18. Haruki Murakami and the Scarcity of Serious Thought
  19. Sebastian Junger’s Focused Retreat
  20. Thinking Outside the Home
  21. Luke Skywalker: Digital Minimalist
  22. On Productivity and Remote Work
  23. The Neuroscience of Busyness
  24. Favorable Conditions Never Come
  25. The Productivity Funnel
  26. On Slow Productivity and the Anti-Busyness Revolution
  27. In Defense of Thinking
  28. On Robert Heinlein’s Analog Autoresponder
  29. Combating Zoom Overload with Reverse Meetings
  30. One Step Closer to a World Without Email
  31. Email is Making Us Miserable
  32. Jason Fried and I Explore A World Without Email
  33. Steinbeck’s Productive Inactivity
  34. Announcing The Email Academy
  35. On Beethoven and the Gifts of Silence
  36. Michael Lewis Doesn’t “Do” Social Media
  37. David Mellinkoff’s Productive Lack of Productivity
  38. A World Without Email
  39. Projects vs. Tasks: A Critical Distinction in Productive Scheduling

2020 88

  1. Theodore Roosevelt’s Focused Advice
  2. Andrew Gelman’s 4 pm Rule (a Knowledge Work Reverie)
  3. Unpacking Our Dialectical Relationship with Slack
  4. From Instagram to Insistent Goats: Another Life After Social Media Case Study
  5. Rethinking the Internet, Again
  6. On Technology and Focus: ASMR, VR, and the First Steps Toward Immersive Single Tasking
  7. When Did Productivity Become Personal?
  8. The Time Blocking Revolution Begins…
  9. Staying Productive on Distracted Days
  10. The Stone Carver in an Age of Computer Screens
  11. A Modest Proposal: Deweaponizing Network Effects
  12. My New Planner + The Time Block Academy
  13. Churchill’s D-Day Task List
  14. On the Neurochemistry of Deep Work
  15. Do Smartphones Make Us Dumber?
  16. Eric Posner Thinks It’s a “Serious Mistake” for Law Professors to Use Twitter
  17. Michael Connelly Starts Writing Before the Sun Comes Up
  18. Life of Focus: Now Open
  19. Focus Week: Take Control of Your Time
  20. Focus Week: Rediscover Depth
  21. Focus Week: Give Your Brain Some Breathing Room
  22. Returning to a Life of Focus
  23. Ray Bradbury Got It Exactly Right
  24. George R. R. Martin’s Pandemic Writing Retreat
  25. Don’t Delegate Using Email
  26. On the Subtle Network Science of Optimal Office Communication
  27. The Bit Player Who Changed the World
  28. On Confronting the Productivity Dragon (take 2)
  29. On Deep Work Tents and the Struggle for Focus in an Age of Social Distance
  30. Has the Shift Toward Neuro-Productivity Already Begun?
  31. A Deliberate Tribute
  32. On the Exceptionalism of Books in an Age of Tweets
  33. On Social Media and Character
  34. Facebook’s Fatal Flaw?
  35. Small Steps
  36. Ancient Complications to Modern Career Advice
  37. Answering Your Questions
  38. On Running an Office Like a Factory
  39. Can Remote Work Be Fixed? My Latest Article For The New Yorker
  40. The Lost Satisfactions of Manual Competence
  41. Let Go to Grow: On a Blogger’s Decision to Trade Social Media for a Quieter Life
  42. The Deep Reset
  43. When Technology Goes Awry
  44. Another Tale of Finding Depth in a Locked Down Life
  45. On Doing Less to Produce More: A Novelist Embraces a Minimalist Lockdown
  46. The Chaotic Factory
  47. Building a WWII Bunker in an Office Building
  48. Bring Back Blogs?
  49. Building a Deep Work Cabin…in an Apartment
  50. More on Cultivating a Deep Life: Mindset
  51. Cultivating a Deep Life
  52. Beyond To-Do Lists
  53. The Dichotomy of Email
  54. Beyond the Inbox: Rules for Reducing Email
  55. Task Inflation and Inbox Capture: On Unexpected Side Effects of Enforced Telework
  56. Nick Saban Just Got Email
  57. More Thoughts on Amplifying Meaning in Your Work
  58. Amplifying Meaning with Environment
  59. Work and the Deep Life
  60. Thoreau on Hard Work
  61. On Productivity, Part 3
  62. On Productivity, Part 2
  63. On Productivity and the Deep Life
  64. The Inconvenient Popularity of Podcasts and Group Texts
  65. The Deep Benefits of Learning Hard Things
  66. The Underappreciated Impact of the Attention Redistribution Revolution
  67. Benjamin Franklin on the Balance Between Solitude and Company
  68. From the Archives: On Quiet Creativity
  69. Thoughts On Notebooks
  70. From Mammoths to Time Management
  71. Newton’s Productive School Break
  72. Carl Jung’s Fantastical Retreat
  73. Building a Career that Matters
  74. Bill Gates’s Prescient Internet Prediction
  75. On Craft and the Human Condition
  76. The Astonishing Spread of the Victorian Internet
  77. The Deep Life: Some Notes
  78. Text File Time Blocking
  79. Mikhail Botvinnik and the Invention of Modern Chess Training
  80. On Irrational Numbers and Deep Thinking
  81. On Digital Minimalism and Pandemics
  82. More Evidence of Facebook’s Negative Impact
  83. Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook
  84. Alfred North Whitehead’s Awe-Inspiring Focus
  85. Sir William Osler’s Advice to Students: Practice Concentrating on Hard Things
  86. On Thomas Edison, Technophobia, and Social Media Criticism
  87. Edward’s Analog January
  88. The Platform Exceptionalism of YouTube

2019 44

  1. The Analog January Challenge
  2. Charles Dickens’s Deep Christmas Strolls
  3. Social Media’s Shift Toward Misery
  4. The Advice I Gave My Students
  5. How Social Media Hacked Civic Conversation
  6. Reflections on the Disconnected Life
  7. The Danger of Exaggerating the Political Importance of Social Media
  8. A Subtle Mistake About How to Acquire Useful Career Skills
  9. The Obvious Way to Improve Your Career (That Might Not Be So Obvious)
  10. On Digital Minimalism, Loneliness and the Joys of True Connection
  11. A Piece of Advice I Wish I’d Included in My Book
  12. The Atomic Minimalist: My Conversation with James Clear
  13. Not All Emails Are Created Equal
  14. How Not to Be Alone: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Dangers of Diminished Communication
  15. Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
  16. On the Surprising Benefits of an Un-Mobile Phone
  17. Is Our Fear of Smartphones Overblown?
  18. “I Was Lacking in Enough Energy, Time and Attention”: Another Digital Minimalism Case Study
  19. On the Art of Learning Things (Ultra) Quickly
  20. “It’s Like I Couldn’t Stop”: A Digital Minimalism Case Study
  21. The Dynamite Circle: A Long Tail Social Media Case Study
  22. Blurring Offline and Online: More on the Potential of Long Tail Social Media
  23. Thinkspot and the Rise of Long Tail Social Media
  24. Senator Hawley on Social Media: “addiction is actually the point.”
  25. Naval Ravikant, Email, and the Future of Work
  26. Franklin Foer on Devoted Attention
  27. On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens
  28. Novelist Mark Haddon Quit Twitter. Not Because It’s Terrible, But Because It Prevents Him From Being Great
  29. On the Utility Fallacy
  30. On Monks and Email
  31. AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story.
  32. Digital Minimalism and Sports
  33. Digital Minimalism and God (Or, is Social Media Undermining Religion?)
  34. The Arizona Cardinals Now Give Their Players Phone Breaks
  35. Mike Trout Doesn’t Care About His Online Brand. He Just Made $430 Million.
  36. Digital Minimalism and Ancestral Health (Or, Would Grok Tweet?)
  37. On Heidegger and Email
  38. Digital Minimalism for Parents
  39. On Sam Harris and Stephen Fry’s Meditation Debate
  40. Minimalism Grows…
  41. The Beginning of a Digital Revolution?
  42. Adam Savage and the IRL Digital Revolution
  43. Why You Should Pre-Order Digital Minimalism
  44. Are Smartphones Necessary Anymore?

2018 41

  1. Join Analog Social Media
  2. From the Hyperlink to the Stream: Hossein Derakshan’s Critique of the Internet in the Age of Social Media
  3. Is YouTube Fundamental or Trivial?
  4. On Blogs in the Social Media Age
  5. My New Book: Digital Minimalism
  6. Is Facebook the AOL of the 2010s? A Skeptical Examination of Social Media Network Effects.
  7. On Bryce Harper and the Impact of Social Media on Athletes
  8. On Physician Burnout and the Plight of the Modern Knowledge Worker
  9. You Are Not a Talent Agent (So Why Do You Work Like One?)
  10. The Mona Lisa Doesn’t Tweet
  11. The Average User Checks Email 5.6 Hours Per Weekday. This Is Not Good.
  12. On the Law of Diminishing Specialization
  13. Some More Thoughts on Human APIs
  14. The Human API Manifesto
  15. Habits vs. Workflows
  16. Charles Wagner’s 100-Year-Old Warning About Social Media
  17. A Brief Summary of the Social Media Reform Movement
  18. Beyond Digital Ethics
  19. On Facebook’s Unique Weakness
  20. The Peacock in Menlo Park: On Open Offices and Signaling Theory
  21. Open Offices Make You Less Open
  22. On Passion and Its Discontents
  23. Digital Wellness for Grown Ups
  24. Jerry Seinfeld’s Closed Door
  25. Yoshua Bengio’s Deep Thoughts on Deep Thinking
  26. Ready Player Productive: On Virtual Reality and Cognitively Demanding Work
  27. Simon Winchester’s Writing Barn
  28. My New Project, Part 3
  29. Beyond Black Box Management
  30. The Disturbing High Modernism of Silicon Valley
  31. On Analog Social Media
  32. Beyond #DeleteFacebook: More Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media
  33. On Social Media and Its Discontents
  34. Stephen Hawking’s Radical Thinking
  35. Tim Wu on the Tyranny of Convenience
  36. Sebastian Junger Never Owned a Smartphone (and Why This Matters)
  37. Facebook’s Desperate Smoke Screen
  38. On Simple Productivity Systems and Complex Plans
  39. Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Advice
  40. On Seriously Rethinking the Digital Economy
  41. On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism

2017 47

  1. Tycho Brahe’s Cognitive Kingdom
  2. The End of Facebook’s Ubiquity?
  3. BuJoPro: Thoughts on Adapting Bullet Journal to a Hyper-Connected World
  4. Jocko Willink On the Power of Discipline
  5. On the Complicated Economics of Attention Capital
  6. The Woodworker Who Quit Email
  7. The da Vinci Pause
  8. Sean Parker on Facebook’s Brain Hacking
  9. Arnold Bennett’s Fight Against Steampunk Social Media
  10. Segment’s Systematic Quest for Depth
  11. Andrew Wiles on the State of Being Stuck
  12. Jony Ive’s iConcern
  13. Are You Using Social Media or Being Used By It?
  14. Spend More Time Alone
  15. Approach Technology Like the Amish
  16. Franklin Foer on Technology’s Surprising Threat to Humanity
  17. Apple’s New Open Office Sparks Revolt
  18. Toward a Deeper Vocabulary
  19. Are We Going to Allow Smartphones to Destroy a Generation?
  20. How I Read When Researching a Book
  21. Aziz Ansari Quit the Internet
  22. Top Performer is Now Open
  23. On Claude Shannon’s Deliberate Depth
  24. When Slower Communication Enables Faster Growth
  25. John Carmack’s Deep Nights
  26. An Early 20th Century Lesson on the Difference Between Convenience and Value
  27. Mike Rowe on Efficiency versus Effectiveness
  28. John Grisham’s 15-Hour Workweek
  29. Patrick Rhone is Nonline
  30. James Michener’s Nomadic Pursuit of Depth
  31. On Steampunk Productivity
  32. The Life-Changing Magic of the Inbox Sort Folder
  33. Listen to Baseball on the Radio (with a Book)
  34. Tim Ferriss and the Rise of the Email Miser
  35. Why Are Maker Schedules So Rare?
  36. The Obvious Value of Communication is Perhaps Not So Obvious
  37. Our Ancient Attraction to Focus
  38. Yuval Harari Works Less Than You
  39. The Focused Rise of Wesley So
  40. The Rise of the Monk Mode Morning
  41. Facebook Phreaks and the Fight to Reclaim Time and Attention
  42. From Tools to Tool Uses
  43. On Value and Digital Minimalism
  44. Top Performer is Open
  45. Are You Working In Your Career or On Your Career?
  46. Stephen Hawking’s Productive Laziness
  47. On Rooted Productivity

2016 50

  1. Some Thoughts on Transitioning to Digital Minimalism
  2. On Digital Minimalism
  3. From Deep Tallies to Deep Schedules: A Recent Change To My Deep Work Habits
  4. Your Most Important Thing Is Not Enough
  5. What I’m Talking About When I Talk About Social Media
  6. The Impact Formula: New Evidence on the Factors that Lead to Breakthroughs
  7. Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Writers: Get Bored
  8. Abraham Lincoln’s Advice to Voters Unhappy with this Election: Suck it Up.
  9. The Opposite of the Open Office
  10. A Famous Rabbi’s Advice for Getting Important Things Done
  11. Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
  12. Nassim Taleb’s (Implied) Argument Against Social Media
  13. Quit Social Media
  14. On Deep Breaks
  15. Join Me and Scott Young for a Live Conversation on Learning and Study Skills on Monday at 8:30 pm ET
  16. A Productivity Lesson from a Classic Arcade Game
  17. Technology Alone Won’t Make You Better at What You Do
  18. A Brief Note on Tenure
  19. Email is Most Useful When Improving a Process that Existed Before Email
  20. On Primal Productivity
  21. No Email, No Problem: A Workflow Engineering Case Study
  22. From Descartes to Pokemon: Matthew Crawford’s Quest to Reclaim our Attention
  23. If You Don’t Choose Your Work Habits, Your Habits Will Choose You
  24. Aziz Ansari Ignores His Email
  25. Milton Friedman’s Deep Work Seasons
  26. Neal Stephenson’s Latest Novel Tackles Social Media (Hint: Future Humans are Not Impressed)
  27. The Principles of Immersive Single Tasking
  28. Jim Clark on Productivity: Don’t Spend Your Day on Social Media, Instead Spend Your Day Building the Next Big Thing
  29. The Deliberate Creative
  30. Top Performer Closes Friday at Midnight
  31. Immersive Single Tasking: Virtual Reality and the Coming Age of Hyper-Productive Work
  32. Top Performer is Open
  33. Edwin Land’s Deep Research
  34. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
  35. What We Learned Teaching Over 1000 Professionals How to Practice Deliberately
  36. Talk to Your Boss About Deep Work
  37. Write Longer Emails
  38. Schedule Meeting Margins
  39. To Make Email Easier We Must Make it Harder
  40. Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Work Habits
  41. Is Email Sinking the U.S. Economy?
  42. On Using Inspiring Locations to Inspire Deeper Work
  43. From Productivity to Workflow Engineering
  44. The Case Against Email Strengthens
  45. Seneca on Social Media
  46. Write an Attention Charter
  47. The Mind is Like a Locomotive
  48. The Killer App of the Knowledge Economy
  49. Email Zero Is Easier Than Inbox Zero
  50. The Book Facebook Doesn’t Want You to Read

2015 49

  1. Resolve to Live a Deep Life
  2. Final Chance to Learn How I Manage My Work
  3. Deep Habits: The Danger of Pseudo-Depth
  4. Tony Schwartz’s Internet Addiction (and Why You Should Care)
  5. I Want to Show You Exactly How I Prioritize Deep Work in My Busy Life
  6. The Feynman Notebook Method
  7. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
  8. Shonda Rhimes Doesn’t Check E-mail After 7 pm
  9. Richard Feynman’s Deliberate Genius
  10. Spend More Time Managing Your Time
  11. Deep Habits: WorkingMemory.txt (The Most Important Productivity Tool You’ve Never Heard Of)
  12. The Power of the Outdoor Office
  13. Top Performer is Now Open
  14. Join Me and Scott Young for a Live Conversation this Weekend
  15. A Productivity Lesson from the Prison Debate Team that Defeated Harvard
  16. On Full Horizon Planning and the Under-Appreciated Power of Workflow Systems
  17. Deep Habits: Three Recent Daily Plans
  18. Alexandra Pelosi is Not Buying What Silicon Valley is Selling
  19. How Louis C. K. Became Funny and Why it Matters
  20. Digital Sabbaticals Don’t Make Sense
  21. Deep Habits: Process Trumps Results for Daily Planning
  22. Einstein Was Boring Before He Was Brilliant
  23. Tim Ferriss in a Toga: The Ancient Greeks on Labor and the Good Life
  24. Deep Habits: Write Your Own E-mail Protocols
  25. Barack Obama on Craftsmanship
  26. The E-mail Productivity Curve
  27. Pursue Metrics that Matter
  28. Deep Habits: Spend Six Months to Master Skills
  29. Don’t Trust Anyone Under 500: Dale Davidson’s Unconventional Advice for Graduates
  30. The Eureka Myth: Why Darwin (not Draper) is the Right Model for Creative Thinking
  31. Shipping Trumps Serendipity
  32. The Original Four Hour Workweek
  33. It’s Not Your Job to Figure Out Why an Apple Watch Might Be Useful
  34. Deep Habits: Listen to Baseball on the Radio
  35. What Steve Jobs Meant When He Said “Follow Your Heart”
  36. From Obscurity to Genius: The Deep Life of Yitang Zhang
  37. Isaac Asimov’s Advice for Being Creative (Hint: Don’t Brainstorm)
  38. Deep Habits: Think Hard Outside The Office
  39. Many Senators Don’t Use E-mail. This Shouldn’t Bother You.
  40. You Are Where You Work: More Examples of Fantastically Deep Working Spaces
  41. Compelling Career Advice from Barack Obama
  42. Deep Habits: Work With Your Whole Brain
  43. J.K. Rowling’s Magical Writing Hut and the Pursuit of True Depth
  44. This Company Eliminated E-mail…and Nothing Bad Happened
  45. Deep Habits: Work Analog
  46. Robin Cook’s (Literal) Deep Work
  47. Deep Habits: Use Index Cards to Accelerate Important Projects
  48. Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Use E-mail (and Why This Matters to You)
  49. Deep Habits: Read a (Real) Book Slowly

2014 52

  1. Thinking is Uncomfortable but Exciting
  2. Deep Habits: Three Tips for Taming Undecidable Tasks
  3. My New Project, Part 2
  4. Deep Habits: Never Plan to “Get Some Work Done”
  5. On Undecidable Tasks (Or, How Alan Turing Can Help You Earn a Promotion)
  6. Deep Habits: Spend Three Months On Important Projects
  7. It’s Okay to Be Bad at E-mail
  8. Deep Habits: Obsess When Needed
  9. Warren Buffett On Goals: If It’s Not The Most Important Thing, Avoid It At All Costs
  10. Deep Habits: Forget Your Project Ideas (Until You Can’t Forget Them)
  11. Doing What it Takes Versus Taking What You Already Know How to Do
  12. On the Obsessive Focus of Bill Gates
  13. Deep Habits: Create an Idea Index
  14. How to Win a Nobel Prize: Notes from Richard Hamming’s Talk on Doing Great Research
  15. Deep Habits: Conquer Hard Tasks With Concentration Circuits
  16. How We Sent a Man to the Moon Without E-mail and Why it Matters Today
  17. Deep Habits: Don’t Web Surf During the Work Day
  18. Should You Work Like Maya Angelou or Eric Schmidt?
  19. Deep Habits: Use Dashes to Optimize Creative Output
  20. How the Best Young Professors Research (and Why it Matters to You)
  21. Deep Habits: Jumpstart Your Concentration with a Depth Ritual
  22. A Personal Appeal
  23. Deep Habits: When the Going Gets Tough, Build a Temporary Plan
  24. John Cage on the Necessity of Boredom
  25. Deep Habits: Pursue Clarity Before Pursuing Results
  26. The Nuanced Road to Passion: A Career Case Study
  27. Deep Habits: How a Big City Lawyer Uses Weekly Planning to Accomplish More in 45 Hours Than Most Could Accomplish in 100
  28. On the Hardness of Important Things
  29. Deep Habits: Plan Your Week in Advance
  30. Stop Looking for the “Right” Career and Start Looking for a Job
  31. Do Goals Prevent Success?
  32. Don’t Pursue Promotions: Contrarian Career Advice from Ancient Sources of Wisdom
  33. How to Read Proofs Faster: A Summary of Useful Advice
  34. The Concrete Satisfaction of Deep Work
  35. My Deliberate Quest to Read Proofs Faster
  36. Don’t Fight Distraction. Make It Irrelevant.
  37. Deep Habits: My Office in the Woods
  38. Should We Work Like Novelists?
  39. Why Didn’t Dan Kois Quit Facebook?
  40. Richard Feynman Didn’t Win a Nobel by Responding Promptly to E-mails
  41. Work Accomplished = Time Spent x Intensity
  42. Deep Habits: Using Milestones to Get Unstuck
  43. Deep Habits: Should You Track Hours or Milestones?
  44. Would You Buy a Yard Tool if You Had No Idea What to Use it For? So Why Would You Sign Up For Snapchat?
  45. The Student Passion Problem
  46. A Useful Reminder: Louis C.K. Was Bad Before He Was Good
  47. Should Gatekeepers be Bypassed or Embraced?
  48. Where’s Your F Chord? What Guitar Teaches Us About the Quest for Mastery
  49. The Empty Sky Paradox: Why Are Stars (in Your Professional Field) So Rare?
  50. Forget Ideas. Focus on Execution.
  51. New Year’s Advice from Epictetus: Don’t Get Started
  52. On Quiet Creativity

2013 37

  1. 37 Signal’s Formula for a Satisfying Career (Hint: It’s Not Passion)
  2. Deep Habits: The Importance of Planning Every Minute of Your Work Day
  3. The Difficulties of Depth: A Case Study in Getting Important Things Done
  4. How Dirty Jobs Disrupt the Idea that Pre-Existing Passion Matters
  5. E-mail Won’t Help You Win a Nobel Prize
  6. What’s Holding You Back From Your Creative Potential? You Don’t Work Nearly Hard Enough.
  7. Why I’m (Still) Not Going to Join Facebook: Four Arguments that Failed to Convince Me
  8. Why I Never Joined Facebook
  9. Seeking Examples of Focus
  10. Will You Get Tenure? Replicate the Academic Promotion Process to Get More Value Out of Your Work
  11. Why Draper University Won’t Work (But Could)
  12. Do You Want To Succeed in College Admissions? Finish Something.
  13. Your Career is Not a Disney Movie
  14. Deep Work and the Good Life
  15. Woody Allen and the Art of Value Productivity
  16. Lessons from Rosie O’Donnell’s Ten Year Big Break
  17. Why Did Most of Dartmouth’s Valedictorians Become Investment Bankers and Consultants? The Need for a Deeper Vocabulary of Career Aspiration
  18. The Courage Crutch: A Remarkable Life Requires You to Overcome Mediocrity, Not Fear
  19. An Animated Argument Against Passion
  20. Hacking Deep Work with Project Step Labels
  21. The Deliberate Rise of Stephen King
  22. Controlling Your Schedule with Deadline Buffers
  23. Do More By Planning Less: The Power of the Anti-Plan
  24. Louis C. K. on Career Capital
  25. In Choosing a Job: Don’t Ask “What Are You Good At?”, Ask Instead “What Are You Willing to Get Good At?”
  26. Deliberately Experimenting with Deliberate Practice — Looking for Subjects to Test My Advice
  27. You Can Be Busy or Remarkable — But Not Both
  28. How to Write Six Important Papers a Year without Breaking a Sweat: The Deep Immersion Approach to Deep Work
  29. Prioritizing Deep Thought in a Distracted World: A Case Study
  30. How Can Two People Feel Completely Different About the Same Job? — Career Drift and the Danger of Pre-Existing Passion
  31. On the Art of Ambition
  32. The Single Number that Best Predicts Professor Tenure: A Case Study in Quantitative Career Planning
  33. You Need to Master the Rules Before You Can Reinvent Them
  34. Do You Need Passion to Succeed as an Entrepreneur? Pam Slim’s Advice for Starting Your Own Business
  35. “Write Every Day” is Bad Advice: Hacking the Psychology of Big Projects
  36. Two Books To Keep On Your New Year Radar
  37. Does Luck Matter More Than Skill?

2012 47

  1. Getting (Unremarkable) Things Done: The Problem With David Allen’s Universalism
  2. This Holiday, Give the Gift of Career Confidence
  3. Einstein’s Rubber Ball
  4. Some Notes on Deep Working
  5. Knowledge Workers are Bad at Working (and Here’s What to Do About It…)
  6. My New Project
  7. Productivity is Not Dead, Just Downgraded
  8. Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning
  9. The Joys and Sorrows of Deep Work
  10. The Importance of Auditing Your Work Habits
  11. My Article in the New York Times and Other Miscellanea
  12. Zipcar CEO’s Dangerous Advice on Passion
  13. My New Book and a Chance to Speak with Me One-On-One
  14. Steve Jobs’s Complicated Views on Passion
  15. I Want to Give You a Free Copy of My New Book
  16. Solutions Beyond the Screen: The Adventure Work Method for Producing Creative Insights
  17. Henri Poincaré’s Four-Hour Work Day
  18. Following Passion is Different than Cultivating Passion
  19. You Probably (Really) Work Way Less Than You Assume
  20. Experiments with the Textbook Method
  21. Hacking Education with Udemy
  22. You Know What You Write: The Textbook Method for Ultra-Learning
  23. The Recorded Life
  24. Work Less to Work Better: My Experiments with Shutdown Routines
  25. Perfectionism is a Loser’s Strategy
  26. On Dominating the World
  27. On the Remarkably Long Road to the Remarkable
  28. Impact Algorithms: Strategies Remarkable People Use to Accomplish Remarkable Things
  29. What You Know Matters More Than What You Do
  30. Decoding the Impact Instinct
  31. Some More Thoughts on Grad School
  32. Facebook’s COO Works Less Than You
  33. Walking in Merlin Mann’s Footsteps and a Book You Should Know About
  34. Do What Works, Not What’s Satisfying: Pseudo-Striving and our Fear of Reality-Based Planning
  35. The Father of Deliberate Practice Disowns Flow
  36. The Satisfying Strain of Learning Hard Material: A Deliberate Practice Case Study
  37. “Being Very Good at Anything Involves Being Somewhat Addicted”: Hard Truth on the Sheer Difficulty of Making an Impact
  38. You’re Working too Hard to Make an Impact
  39. Don’t Know What To Do With Your Life? Seek Bargains.
  40. Can I Be Happy as an Investment Banker? The Difference Between Pursuing a Lifestyle and Following Your Passion
  41. The Start-Up of You
  42. Learn the Landscape Before Putting on Blinders: How to Direct Diligence Toward Remarkable Results
  43. Closing Your Interests Opens More Interesting Opportunities: The Power of Diligence in Creating a Remarkable Life
  44. Distraction is a Symptom of a Deeper Problem: The Convenience Principle and the Destruction of American Productivity
  45. A Major Newspaper Wants Your Thoughts On Passion
  46. Intelligence is Irrelevant: An MIT Alum’s Advice to a Struggling Student
  47. Beyond Flow

2011 48

  1. How I Used Deliberate Practice to Destroy my Computer Science Final
  2. Flow is the Opiate of the Mediocre: Advice on Getting Better from an Accomplished Piano Player
  3. The Ambitious Minimalist: Musings on Impact, Simplicity, and the Good Life
  4. Abandon Your Big Idea. But Don’t Give Up Your Big Ambition.
  5. Is Talent Underrated? Making Sense of a Recent Attack on Practice
  6. MindMaple Gives, I Give Back…
  7. Perfectionism as Practice: Steve Jobs and the Art of Getting Good
  8. Complicate the Formula: John McPhee’s Deliberate Practice Strategy
  9. If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
  10. Welcome to the Post-Productivity World
  11. I am Looking for a PhD Student
  12. Citelighter Gives, I Give Back…
  13. Don’t Go Pre-Med: My Advice to a Yale Student Worried About Her Future
  14. Seeking the Story Behind Genius
  15. Atul Gawande Thinks You’re Not As Good As You Think You Are
  16. The Calculus of Remarkability
  17. Is It Possible to Apply the Zen Valedictorian Philosophy in Graduate School?
  18. A Major Paper is Looking for Students to Interview
  19. Thomas Friedman Thinks You Should Stop Whining About Your Passion and Work Harder
  20. Interested in Lifestyle Design? Get a PhD.
  21. Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Transform It: Why Following Your Passion is the Wrong Way to Find Occupational Happiness
  22. The Career Craftsman Manifesto
  23. Studying by Startlight: Adventure Studying and the Quest to Take Back Control of Your Academic Experience
  24. How to Tutor Your Own Child
  25. The Single Most Useful Lesson I Learned as a Student
  26. From “To Do” to “Will Do”: Using the Case Method to Defeat Procrastination
  27. I Don’t Know Another Science Student Less Stressed Than Me: A Case for Simplicity
  28. How to Cure Deep Procrastination
  29. The Procrastinating Caveman: What Human Evolution Teaches Us About Why We Put Off Work and How to Stop
  30. Lab Notes: My Closed-Loop Research System
  31. On Minecraft and the Launch of Project Remarkable
  32. It’s Not About You: David Brooks’ Contrarian Advice for College Graduates
  33. Quick Hits: My Move to Georgetown, Live Interview, and Experiments with Forced Batching
  34. Anatomy of an A+: A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
  35. Lab Notes: I Spent 42 Hours Last Month on the Activity Most Critical to My Success
  36. On Becoming a Math Whiz: My Advice to a New MIT Student
  37. Dispatch: Rethinking Meaningful Work at the Bluegrass Frat House
  38. The Grade Whisperer: How Do I Start an Impressive Project if I Don’t Have an Impressive Interest?
  39. Boston-Area Readers: Come See Me Speak Monday Night in Belmont
  40. Is It Possible to Feel Passionate About Being a Tax Consultant?
  41. How to Become a Rhodes Scholar: Decoding the Accomplishments of Elite Students
  42. On the Possibility of Non-Conformity in a Conformist Career
  43. Come Meet Me at 7 PM Monday at 303 Frist on the Princeton Campus
  44. Quick Hits: Meet Up in Princeton and the Return of Scott Young’s Study Skills Program
  45. How Would You Title a Book about My Ideas on Passion?
  46. Zen and the Art of Investment Banking: When Working Right is More Important than Finding the Right Work
  47. Of Pre-Med Schedules and the Possibility of Finishing Your Work Before Dinner
  48. The Race to Somewhere: How to Make the College Admissions Process the Foundation for a Life Well-Lived

2010 40

  1. Learning to Love Your AP History Assignments: How to Hack the Psychology of Student Motivation
  2. The Pre-Med and Ira Glass: Complicated Career Advice from Compelling People
  3. The Roberts Method: A Professor’s Advice for Falling in Love With Your Major
  4. The Passion Trap: How the Search for Your Life’s Work is Making Your Working Life Miserable
  5. How Double Majors Can Ruin Your Life: Two Arguments for Doing Less
  6. The Romantic Scholar: A New Approach to Student Life
  7. A Major Newspaper is Looking for Student, Parents, and Professors to Interview About Getting Into Hard Courses
  8. Quick Hits: Come Meet Me and Chris Guillebeau at Harvard Square Monday Night
  9. The Danger of the Dream Job Delusion
  10. Passion Must Be Actively Pursued, Not Passively Waited On — Welcome Zen Habits Readers
  11. An Open Letter to Students on the Danger of Seeing School as a Trial to Survive
  12. Study Hacks Hacked!
  13. Quick Hits: Tales of Disconnection, Free Books, and Tips for Aspiring Writers
  14. Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great
  15. From CEOs to Opera Singers — Welcome Tim Ferriss Readers
  16. I’m Not Stressed About College Admissions, Why Are You?
  17. The Craftsman in the Cubicle
  18. I Want to Send You a Signed Copy of My New Book
  19. Treat Your Mind as You Would a Private Garden
  20. Is Allowing Your Child to Study While on Facebook Morally Irresponsible?
  21. In Search of Purpose: Esther Duflo and the Pre-Conditions for Finding Your Life’s Mission
  22. How to Become a Star Screenwriter: A Case Study in Modern Craftsmanship
  23. The Upside of Deep Procrastination
  24. Quick Hits: Searching for E-mail Renegades, Rethinking Work, and Listening to Ramit’s Take on Student Loans
  25. Why Does the World’s Top Mathematician have a Public E-Mail Address?
  26. Corrupted Callings: The Subtle Difference Between Finding Your Life’s Work and Loving Your Life
  27. I Got a C on My Orgo Exam! What Should I Do?
  28. How to Get Into Stanford with B’s on Your Transcript: Failed Simulations & the Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness
  29. How to Become a Star Grad Student: James McLurkin and the Power of Stretch Churn
  30. Quick Hits: Rethinking Remarkable, Deconstructing Star Grad Students, and the Science of Interestingness
  31. Want to Get into Harvard? Spend More Time Staring at the Clouds: Rethinking the Role of Extracurricular Activities in College Admissions
  32. Who Are You? Inquiring Minds Want to Know…
  33. On Great Teachers and the Remarkable Life: A Deliberate Practice Case Study
  34. Quick Hits: Deliberate Practice for Writers, Entrepreneurs, and Hollywood Superstars
  35. An Argument for Quitting Facebook
  36. Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do
  37. Action Taken: $4700 Raised & Signed Books Given Away
  38. Take Action, Get a Signed Book
  39. How Ricardo Aced Computer Science Using His iPhone
  40. The Grandmaster in the Corner Office: What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life

2009 78

  1. Resolve to Make 2010 a Year of Radical Simplicity
  2. If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, Don’t Do It
  3. The Grade Whisperer: Karen’s Overbearing Parents
  4. Two Quick Notes: Volunteers and Steroids
  5. Are You a Guitar Player or Club Owner?
  6. Heidegger with Hefeweizen: Rethinking the Power of Context
  7. Are Passions Serendipitously Discovered or Painstakingly Constructed?
  8. A Study Hacks Primer
  9. How to Study for Non-Technical Science Courses
  10. The Grade Whisperer: How Jay Became a Living Incarnation of the Study Hacks Canon
  11. The Fitness Guru: Focus on How Fast You Recover, Not How Much You Do
  12. Double Majors Don’t Publish Novels
  13. The Hidden Art of Practice
  14. The Grade Whisperer: Rapid-Fire Advice
  15. The Grade Whisperer: Ron’s Feeble Focus
  16. Freestyle Productivity: Balancing Systems and Simplicity When Organizing Your Life
  17. The Ice Bath Method: Easing Into Painful Projects
  18. Three Ways to Help Spread the Word
  19. The Definitive Guide to Acing Your Schedule
  20. Are You Living Well or Preparing to Live Well?
  21. The Rule of One: A Simple Technique to Create a Relaxed Student Life
  22. The Unsinkable Student Organization System
  23. Focus Hard. In Reasonable Bursts. One Day at a Time.
  24. The Danger of Black Box Studying
  25. What is Your Time Worth?
  26. Pruning Your List of What Matters
  27. Does Living a Remarkable Life Require Courage or Effort?
  28. Should Your Major Be Your Passion?
  29. Only at MIT…
  30. Grit, Grinds, and Living the Low Stress Life
  31. Diligence vs. Ability: Rethinking What Impresses Employers
  32. On the Value of Hard Focus
  33. The Grade Whisperer: Alice Escapes Her Academic Hell
  34. Drastically Reduce Stress with a Work Shutdown Ritual
  35. The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy For Becoming Exceptionally Good
  36. An Update On My New Book
  37. My Advice for Rising Freshmen
  38. The Grade Whisperer: Eric Prepares to Battle English Lit
  39. The Power of Demolition: Why the Best Study Strategies are New Strategies
  40. My Focus-Centric Work Day
  41. How to Build a Paper Research Wiki
  42. The Grade Whisperer: Mike’s Pre-Med Nightmare
  43. The Shadow Course: A Simple Technique to Produce Extraordinary Work
  44. Q & A: Taking Biology Notes, Switching Between Tasks, Deconstructing Crappy Papers, and More…
  45. Fighting the Pre-Exam Slump
  46. What If My Dream Major Turns Into a Nightmare?
  47. 4 Weeks to a 4.0: Create Project Folders
  48. I’m Off to Brazil
  49. Finals Diaries: Travis Prepares to Battle Calculus
  50. 4 Weeks to a 4.0: Master Your Assignments
  51. The Unheralded Splendor of the A* Strategy
  52. Finals Diaries: Let Me Help You Ace Your Finals
  53. Quick Note: Dan Schawbel’s New Book
  54. 4 Weeks to a 4.0: Streamline Your Notes
  55. Using Fitness “Algorithms” to Stay in Shape Without a Rigid Workout Plan
  56. 4 Weeks to a 4.0: Adopt an Autopilot Schedule and a Sunday Ritual
  57. What the Hell is Study Hacks?
  58. How to Go From College to an Extraordinary Life (and Bank Account)
  59. The Notebook Method: How Pen and Paper Can Transform You Into a Star Student
  60. Do College Students Need Laptops in the Age of Netbooks?
  61. Some Thoughts On Grad School
  62. The Straight-A Method: How to Ace College Courses
  63. How NOT to Prepare for the LSAT
  64. Study Hacks Gets a Fancy New Archive & My Search for Focused Students
  65. The Art of Taking Science Notes
  66. How to Save a Disasterous Semester
  67. I’m Vacating Until Next Week…
  68. Want a Job? Don’t Major in Business.
  69. The Danger of Deep Procrastination
  70. How to Quickly Capture Quotes from Electronic Sources
  71. Have We Lost Our Tolerance For a Little Boredom?
  72. Case Study: How Amy Saved Her College Career
  73. The Myth of the Big Break
  74. 5 Thought Experiments That Might Change Your Life
  75. 3 Simple Rules for Making your Free Time Count
  76. Start Your Semester Off Right By Quitting Something
  77. The Difference Between “Unusual” and “Impressive”
  78. Three Student Resolutions Worth Making

2008 180

  1. Case Study: How Tyler Aced a Difficult Course
  2. Let’s Teach Ramit That Study Hacks Readers Rock!
  3. How to Avoid Fighting With Your Parents While Home for Christmas Break
  4. Announcing the HP Magic Contest Winner
  5. Q & A: How Much Does Intelligence Matter at College?
  6. Announcing the Rules for my Free Computer Giveaway
  7. How Allison Used Her iPod to Ace Biology
  8. How to Ace Essay Questions Using the Three Minute Rule
  9. 5 Mistakes to Avoid During Finals
  10. Case Study: How I Got the Highest Grade in my Discrete Math Class
  11. I’m Giving Away 5 Computers…
  12. Q & A: Mastering Question Clusters, Breaking Up with Terrible Majors, Withdrawing from a ‘B’, and Debating a Two-Day a Week Course Schedule
  13. The Stable Mucking Method: A Freestyle Approach To Keeping the Annoying Little Stuff Under Control
  14. How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses
  15. Plan.txt : The Most Effective Productivity Tool That You’ve Never Heard Of
  16. Does Being Exceptional Require an Exceptional Amount of Work?
  17. Do You Play Misery Poker or Quack?
  18. Do You Want To Be Featured In My New Book?
  19. The Science of Student Burnout
  20. Announcing My New Book and Important Changes to Study Hacks
  21. The Goldilocks Strategy for Choosing the Perfect Workload
  22. Monday Master Class: How to Keep Life Interesting with a Saturday Morning Project
  23. How to Become a Deep Thinker at College
  24. A Greek Philosopher Tackles Student Activities
  25. A Humble Request…
  26. Monday Master Class: How to Stave Off Stress with a Mid-Semester Dash
  27. Q & A: Life After Scoring an 80% and Joining Boring Clubs to Impress Grad Schools
  28. Four Ways to Annoy a Professor When Asking For Help (And Four Things You Should Do Instead)
  29. Disruptive Thinkers: Jason Shah Wants SAT Prep To Be Free
  30. Announcing the Winner of the HP Laptop Giveaway
  31. Dream Job Diaries: A Day in the Life of a Recently Graduated Start-up Entrepeneur
  32. Monday Master Class: Getting Things Done for College Students…Made Easy
  33. Update on Laptop Contest
  34. A Conversation with Ben Casnocha
  35. The Freshman 15 Contest: Enter Now to Win a Free Laptop
  36. A Simple Method for Developing an Innovative Activity
  37. Monday Master Class: The Study Hacks Guide to Beating Student Stress
  38. College Commando: How a Special Forces Candidate Tackles Undergraduate Life
  39. Dangerous Ideas: Imagine a College Application without Transcripts, Test Scores, or Extracurriculars
  40. The Freshman 15 Contest: I’m Giving Away a Free Laptop
  41. Monday Master Class: The Retreating Deadline Method
  42. Case Study: How Scott Discovered That His Activities Wouldn’t Get Him Into Law School Then Harnessed Simplicity To Become a Star
  43. I’m Looking for a Few Good Volunteers…
  44. Do You Have a Working Disorder?
  45. Monday Master Class: The Quarantine Method for Producing Better Work in Less Total Hours
  46. Case Study: How Could We Save This Ridiculously Overloaded Grind?
  47. Book Review: The Little Book of Productivity
  48. Q & A: Transfer Student Zen, Taming Tardy Problem Sets, and Tweaking the Straight-A Method for High School
  49. Monday Master Class: The Paperback Writer Method
  50. College Chronicles Season 2: Meet Marina, the Liberal Arts Major Who Craves Simplicity
  51. 5 + 2 Things To Try This Semester
  52. Bonus Post: The Five Most Popular Articles in August
  53. Monday Master Class: The Story Telling Method
  54. The Genius Myth: The Danger of Worshiping “Exceptional” Students
  55. Q & A: Coming Up With Innovative Activities, Skimming Fiction, and Making the Morse Code Method More Studyable
  56. Reporter from Money Magazine Looking for Students to Interview
  57. Monday Master Class: Five Pieces of Unexpected Back to School Advice
  58. How Many Hours Do You Have to Work to Feel Productive?
  59. Monday Master Class: A Crash Course in the Straight-A Method
  60. Study Hacks Goes to Canada
  61. Does Where You Go To School Matter? (And Why Reporters Get This Wrong…)
  62. 5 Myths That Cause College Students Unnecessary Stress
  63. I’m Recruiting Students for a New Season of College Chronicles
  64. Monday Master Class: How to Use a Monotypic Inbox to Kick the Compulsive E-mail Checking Habit
  65. The Unconventional Scholar: Don’t Discuss Your Major With Your Parents
  66. Bonus Post: An Author Who is Proud to Admit that he Sucks at E-Mail
  67. Case Study: How Skidmore’s Busiest Student Discovered the Secret to Happiness on the Other Side of the World
  68. Monday Master Class: The Biggest Source of Stress that Most Students Ignore
  69. Dangerous Ideas: Beware of People Who Tell You Traditional Career Paths are Bad
  70. On the Beauty of Doing Less
  71. A Forbes.Com Reporter is Looking for Students to Interview
  72. Monday Master Class: Conquer Cramming with the Same Day Rule
  73. Is Low Stress Med School Admissions Possible?
  74. Dangerous Ideas: College Extracurriculars Are Meaningless
  75. Monday Master Class: How to Start Down the Long Road from Chaos to Efficiency
  76. 5 Articles That Will Change The Way You Think About Personal Productivity
  77. Bonus Post: How the World’s Most Famous Computer Scientist Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months
  78. The Difference Between Experiments and Goals: How to Balance Spontaneity with the Focused Pursuit of Fame
  79. Monday Master Class: Stop Procrastinating by Making it Easier to Procrastinate
  80. How to Ace the SAT: A No-Nonsense System for Students Looking to Score High
  81. Q & A: Death by A.P. Course, Initializing the Autopilot, and Shameless Promotion
  82. Monday Master Class: To Go To Class, Or Not To Go…There Shouldn’t Be Any Question
  83. Case Study: Why the Number of Hours You Spend Studying Means Nothing
  84. E-Mail Zero: Imagining Life Without E-Mail
  85. Monday Master Class: A Crash Course in Student Time Management
  86. Dangerous Ideas: Getting Started is Overrated
  87. Book Review: A Brief Guide to World Domination
  88. Monday Master Class: Conquer Complicated Material with the Mini-Textbook Method
  89. Disruptive Thinkers: Chris Guillebeau Wants to Teach You the Art of Non-Conformity
  90. Q & A: Beware of “Ducks” at Stanford, Forget About Your Senior Year G.P.A., and Become Interesting to College Admissions Officers
  91. Monday Master Class: How David Scored a 4.0 With 0.0 Notes
  92. Weekend Links: An Ideal Life, Summer School, Young People Jobs and the Problem with Work/Life Balance
  93. On the Role of Study Advice in the Age of Grade Inflation
  94. Debunking Parkinson’s Law
  95. I Want To Hear Your Story…
  96. Monday Master Class: How to Accomplish Big Things This Summer Using the 3×3 Method
  97. A Study Hacks Vacation: I’ll Be Away for 10 Days…
  98. The Art of Activity Innovation: How to Be Impressive Without an Impressive Amount of Work
  99. Monday Master Class: The Study Hacks Guide to Note-Taking
  100. The Problem with Passion
  101. The Most Important Piece of Career Advice You Probably Never Heard
  102. Monday Master Class: How to Build a Knowledge Vault and Avoid Wasting an Entire Semester’s Worth of Work
  103. Disruptive Thinkers: David Masters Thinks Studying Should Be Fun
  104. Advanced Student Stress Relief: The Activity Vacation
  105. Bonus Post: An Adventure Studying Case Study
  106. Monday Master Class: The Visual Panic Schedule
  107. Unexpected Wisdom: Some Interesting Articles From Interesting Places
  108. Exclusive Interview: Daniel Pink’s Advice for Jumpstarting a Meaningful Post-Grad Life
  109. Monday Master Class: How Two Extra Hours Can Make Your Paper Two Times Better
  110. Adventure Studying: An Unconventional New Approach to Exam Preperation
  111. My World Famous Mechanical Exam Prep Process
  112. Monday Master Class: The Study Hacks Guide to Exams
  113. Disruptive Thinkers: Marty Nemko Wants You To Forget Your Boring Passions
  114. The Science of Procrastination Revisted: Researchers Rethink Willpower
  115. The Makings of a Good Day
  116. Monday Master Class: Control End of Semester Chaos with the 4D Method
  117. Bonus Post: A Zen Valedictorian Case Study
  118. How to Become a Zen Valedictorian: Decreasing Your Stress Without Decreasing Your Ambition
  119. Q & A: Getting into Harvard without Getting an Ulcer, Scheduling Research Time, and the Art of Becoming Good
  120. Looking to Publish Your Student Life Hacking Expertise?
  121. Monday Master Class: The Wonders of Bare Naked Filing
  122. The Zen Valedictorian: A Radical New Model for Getting the Most Out of College
  123. Crowd Wisdom: What Would You Do If Your College Career Was Classified?
  124. The Tasty Ingredients in my Productivity Secret Sauce
  125. Monday Master Class: How to Reduce Stress and Get More Done By Building an Autopilot Schedule
  126. Weekend Links: Live to 100, Conquer Anxiety, Balance Ambition with Relaxation and Start a Project Log
  127. Q & A: Can a Relaxed Student Get into Grad School?
  128. An Open Letter to Students Waiting for Their College Admissions Decisions
  129. Monday Master Class: How to Transform Your Professer Into Your Paper Writing Partner
  130. How to Get a Book Deal: Lessons From My Adventures in the World of Non-Fiction Publishing
  131. Case Study: How Kristianne Simplified Her Life, Demolished Stress, and Became More Successful
  132. Monday Master Class: Pulverize Large Assignments with the ESS Method
  133. How to Be Happy
  134. Q & A: Complicated Study Systems, Complicated Productivity Software, and Complicated Achievements
  135. Monday Master Class: Drop Courses Every Semester
  136. Weekend Links: Radical Simplicity Edition
  137. Debunking the Laundry List Fallacy: Why Doing Less is More Impressive
  138. The Radical Simplicity Manifesto: Doing Less and Living More at College
  139. Monday Master Class: Choose Your Hard Days
  140. Dangerous Ideas: Action is Overrated
  141. Crowd Wisdom: Your Best Study Hacks Revealed
  142. Monday Master Class: You’re Not Smarter Than a 5th Grader (When it Comes to Starting Your Paper Research)
  143. A Rap Star and a Rhodes Scholar Walk Into a Bar…
  144. Guest Post: Implement a Mechanism-Based Lifestyle
  145. Crowd Wisdom: What’s Your Most Innovative Study Hack?
  146. Q & A: Strategic Drinking, Mission Impossible, and the Tale of the Rhodes Scholar Who Failed Freshman Calculus
  147. Monday Master Class: The Art of Pseudo-Skimming
  148. The Secret Your Neighborhood Rhodes Scholar Doesn’t Want You To Know
  149. Would Lincoln Have Become President If He Had E-Mail?
  150. Monday Master Class: Rapid Note-Taking with the Morse Code Method
  151. Fixed-Schedule Productivity: How I Accomplish a Large Amount of Work in a Small Number of Work Hours
  152. Q & A: Dealing with Killer Classes, Notes in the Age of Note Packets, and Avoiding the Deadly Grind Syndrome
  153. Monday Master Class: The 5 Most Useful Study Hacks Articles That You Never Read
  154. Weekend Links: A Single Note Card, Being Happy, and Fighting Deathly Schedules
  155. Case Study: How I Plan to Study for my Art History Seminar
  156. The Art of Speaking: “There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers,” this and other advice from a master speaker.
  157. Monday Master Class: How to Peform a Post-Exam Post-Mortem
  158. Weekend Links: Self-Knowledge, Less Info Clutter, and Disturbing Photos
  159. The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian’s Advice for Becoming Famous
  160. Q & A: Studying with Kirstie Alley, Decoding the Quarter System, and Coping with Early Classes
  161. Monday Master Class: Form a Productivity Junta
  162. Weekend Links: E-mail Bugs, Slacker Freshmen, and the Mythology Behind Good Will Hunting
  163. The Straight-A Method: A Simple Framework For Conquering College
  164. The Science of Procrastination: Researchers Tackle Willpower and our Ability to Control it
  165. Crowd Wisdom: The Worst Part of the College Admissions Process
  166. Monday Master Class: How to Use Time Arbitrage to Maximize Your Productivity Profit
  167. Weekend Links: Martini Your Way Through Your Dissertation, Don’t Sweat Your Inbox, and Turn Off the Internet
  168. Disruptive Thinkers: Ben Casnocha Wants You To Stop Making So Many Damn Plans
  169. College Chronicles #13: Jake’s Advice For You
  170. Welcome Back Gideon
  171. Monday Master Class: How to Edit Your Paper in Three Passes or Less
  172. Study Hacks Wins Best Education Blog Award
  173. Crowd Wisdom: How Study Hacks Readers Suggest You Study Foreign Languages
  174. College Chronicles #12: Leena’s Advice For You
  175. Monday Master Class: How to Read Hard Readings
  176. Vote for Study Hacks!
  177. How do you study for foreign language courses?
  178. Dangerous Ideas: People Respect Hard Work, But Idolize Magic
  179. The Slacker Paradox: Myth or Reality?
  180. A Simple Technique to Avoid Heart Attack Semesters

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  1. Monday Master Class: 5 Bad Study Habits You Should Resolve to Avoid in 2008
  2. 3 Rules For Making Resolutions That Stick
  3. How to Make 2008 Significantly More Exciting Than 2007
  4. Monday Master Class: Have a Happy Holiday
  5. Weekend Links: Don’t Love Your Work, Gain Weight, and Stop Multi-Tasking…
  6. Tis the Season…to Conduct a Ruthless Project Purge
  7. For the Student Who Has Everything…
  8. 5 Tips For Working Effectively Over Christmas Break
  9. Monday Master Class: The Most Important Paper Research Advice You’ve Never Heard
  10. 25 Articles Every Student Should Read
  11. I’m on Vacation for the Next 10 Days…
  12. Why I Don’t Regret Getting Straight A’s in College
  13. Monday Master Class: Don’t Use a Daily To-Do List
  14. Weekend Links: Uncover Bias, Write in Phases, and Converse Solo
  15. College Chronicles #11: Leena Resists the Student Work Day, Hits Rock Bottom, then Rises from the Ashes with a Stunning Plan of Her Own
  16. The Unconventional Scholar: Eat Alone Twice a Day
  17. I Need Your College Admissions Story for a Writing Project
  18. Monday Master Class: Five Ways to Avoid Panicking on a Hard Test
  19. Q & A: Recording Lectures, Dealing with Definitions, and Spreading the Good Word
  20. Monday Master Class: How to Take Notes on Power Point Slides
  21. Weekend Links: Register Like a Pro, Avoid Red, and Start From the Bottom With Your Career Planning
  22. Dangerous Ideas: Bodybuilders Should Be More Successful
  23. The Unconventional Scholar: Ignore Your GPA
  24. Classic Monday Master Class: Identify an Instant Replay Booth for Every Class
  25. Are You Effective or Just Busy? Calculate Your Churn Rate to Find Out
  26. Student Productivity Blog Carnival | November 2007
  27. Monday Master Class: How to Use a Flat Outline to Write Outstanding Papers, Fast
  28. Weekend Links: Ogle Planners, Drink Your Way to Health, and Dissect Your Life
  29. The Fitness Guru: Recharging During the Day, Avoiding the Beer Gut, and Self-Amputation
  30. How to Use an Administrative Day to Significantly Increase Your Weekly Productivity
  31. Monday Master Class: How to Use Gmail to Reduce Your Study Time by 50%
  32. Weekend Links: Don’t Sweat the Bad Stuff, Take Notes Like Edison, and Applaud David Seah’s Certainty…
  33. College Chronicles #10: Welton Establishes a Student Work Week and Reserves Extra Time for Low-Stress Test Prep
  34. Does Your College Major Matter?
  35. Monday Master Class: How to Talk to a TA
  36. Weekend Links: Stop Working on Fridays, Meet Better People, and Become Perplexed by Cal’s Prolificness
  37. Declare a Productivity-Free Day
  38. Guest Post: How to Use a Laptop in Class
  39. Q & A: Five Key Questions About Becoming an Efficient Student
  40. Ask An Expert: What Questions Do You Have About Diet and Fitness at College?
  41. Monday Master Class: How to Schedule Your Writing Like a Professional Writer
  42. College Chronicles #9: I Help Leena Perform a Time Audit and Establish a Student Work Day
  43. The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less
  44. Vote for Gideon
  45. Monday Master Class: How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night
  46. Disruptive Thinkers: Scott Young Wants to Change How You Study
  47. The Winners of the Book Giveaway and an Introduction to the New and Improved Study Hacks
  48. The Art of Stealth Studying: How To Earn a 4.0 With Only 1.0 Hours of Work
  49. Two Days Left for Book Giveaway
  50. Monday Master Class: How to Build a Paper Research Database
  51. I Want to Send You a Free Signed Copy of My Book
  52. Q & A: How Much Should I Care About a Minor Assignment I’m Doing Poorly On?
  53. If I Could Do it Again: Jessica Crowell
  54. Dangerous Ideas: What If Everything We Thought Was True About Productivity Was Wrong?
  55. Follow a Sunday Ritual
  56. How to Make Resolutions that Stick
  57. Around the Web: Can You Train Your Brain? (Answer: Yes)
  58. How Unfair is the College Admission Process?
  59. College Chronicles #8: Welton’s Has His First Week of Classes, Encounters Resistance to His Non-Idiotic Study Habits, and Realizes Things are Going to Get Worse (Time-Wise) Before They Get Better
  60. Coming Up This Week…
  61. Monday Master Class: Use Focused Question Clusters to Study for Multiple Choice Tests
  62. Around the Web: 7 Ways to Get to Sleep
  63. Dangerous Ideas: “Paying Your Dues” is Underrated
  64. College Chronicles #7: Leena Turns 20, Dances Away Her Weekend, Gives Up Sleep, Falls Deathly Ill, and Initiaites a Love Affair with Nyquil
  65. Around the Web: Introducing Dissertation Bootcamp
  66. Q & A: When Should I Go To Sleep?
  67. Around the Web: The Return of The Genius in All of Us
  68. Around the Web: More Productivity Porn…
  69. Around the Web: The Importance of Reading
  70. A Time Management System for Students Who Are Terrible at Time Management And Tend to Hate it More Than Slow Torture Involving Electrical Current and Sensitive Anatomy
  71. Around the Web: 5 Signs You Are On Autopilot
  72. Around the Web: Hack College Reviews the Latest “Stupid Frat-Boy Business Idea”
  73. College Chronicles #6: Jake Wins a Scrimmage, Parties Away his Sickness, and Ponders the Big Questions
  74. 20 Simple Ways to Defuse Procrastination
  75. Around the Web: Clive Thompson Tackles the Science of Studying
  76. Beyond Wikipedia: 15,731,298 References You Can’t Do Without
  77. Coming Up This Week…
  78. Monday Master Class: Drizzle Test Preperation Over Many Days
  79. Three Ways Smart Students Reduce Study Time
  80. Around the Web: Living with Microsoft Word
  81. Around the Web: Introducing That College Kid
  82. College Chronicles #5: Jake Gets Off to a Successful, Drunken Start
  83. Around the Web: 7 Web Apps of Highly Effective Students
  84. Guest Post: The KISS Approach to Lecture Notes
  85. A Humble Request…
  86. 5 Ways to Get More Stuff Done During the Day
  87. College Chronicles #4: Leena Remembers Why MIT Students So Often Look Like Extras from a George Romero Movie
  88. Around the Web: Hack College Introduces a Podcast
  89. Coming Up This Week…
  90. Around the Web: More Back-to-School Advice, Reclaim Hours, and Better E-mails
  91. College Chronicles #3: Meet Leena, the MIT Junior Looking to Change her (Academic) Ways
  92. Monday Master Class: Downgrade the Importance of Writing in Paper Writing
  93. College Chronicles #2: Meet Welton, the Ultra-Committed Harvard Junior
  94. If I Could Do it Again: Melissa Adelman
  95. Constructing Beautiful Study Guides
  96. Dangerous Idea Revisited: Sorry Paul Graham…
  97. Dangerous Ideas: Sorry Paul Graham, I Think it Does Matter Where You Went to College
  98. Q & A: How Many Courses Should I Take?
  99. How Would You Design Freshman Orientation?
  100. College Chronicles #1: Meet Jake, the Reformed Studier with a Daring Plan
  101. Introducing College Chronicles
  102. The Word “Study” is Meaningless
  103. Guest Post: The Intersection of Technology and Productivity
  104. Study Hacks Fall Line-Up
  105. Monday Master Class: Use Technical Explanation Questions When Studying For Technical Classes
  106. Dangerous Ideas: Productivity is Overrated
  107. What Firefox Should Have Done in the First Place
  108. What Makes an Interesting Life Interesting?
  109. Why Does Firefox Campus Edition Make Me So Irrationally Upset?
  110. Why Do Good Reporters Write Bad Articles About Successful Young People?
  111. Looking for a Courageous Volunteer
  112. The Science of Studying
  113. Around the Web: Introducing Scholastici.us
  114. Monday Master Class: Back to School Advice You Won’t Find in Your Freshman Handbook
  115. Unconventional SAT Prep: What I’ve Learned So Far…
  116. Wish Me Luck…
  117. Monday Master Class: Never Be Hungry
  118. Unconventional SAT Prep
  119. The Vital Five: A Crash Course for Turning Around Poor Academic Performance
  120. The Paradox of Young Lifehackers
  121. Monday Master Class: Three Trivial Study Habits that Provide Significant Results
  122. Around the Web: What Makes You More Effective?
  123. Why Most Students Don’t Understand the Real Goal of Note-Taking
  124. Around the Web: LifeHack’s Research Advice for Students
  125. Monday Master Class: Three Unexpected Study Tips
  126. How Do You Handle E-mails You Don’t Know How to Answer?
  127. The Straight-A Gospels: Studying is a Technical Skill
  128. From the Web: Introducing Academic Productivity
  129. Monday Master Class: Never Take Books Out of the Library
  130. The Straight-A Gospels: Pseudo-Work Does Not Equal Work
  131. The Straight-A Gospels
  132. Monday Master Class: Apply Weakest Link Theory to Time Management
  133. If I could do it again: Michael Simmons
  134. Monday Master Class: The Activity Filter
  135. Monday Master Class: Accelerate Q/E/C Note-Taking
  136. Monday Master Class: The Graph as Question
  137. Monday Master Class: Part 2 in 60 Seconds or Less
  138. Monday Master Class: Identify an Instant Replay Booth for Every Class
  139. Interview with Ben Casnocha
  140. The power of being the best
  141. Getting Things Done for College Students: The Full System
  142. Three ways GTD and college don’t mix
  143. A whirlwind tour of Getting Things Done
  144. Three reasons students are terrible at time management
  145. Getting Things Done for College Students: Introduction
  146. Three steps for completing large projects
  147. What separates talkers and doers?
  148. My Talk at Dartmouth and “Grand Projects”