Planning
How to Plan a Project Backwards From the Deadline Day
Most people plan a project forwards. They start with the first task, guess how long it will take, add the next one and hope the...
Productivity and systems writer
Sam writes about the systems and habits that help people work better without burning out. He is interested in what actually changes behaviour rather than what sounds good in a productivity book, and his writing reflects years of testing ideas in real life.
Planning
Most people plan a project forwards. They start with the first task, guess how long it will take, add the next one and hope the...
Productivity
It is 6 pm, your to-do list still has eleven items on it, and you feel as if you did nothing all day.
Time Management
It is 4:40 on a Thursday. A colleague leans over and asks if you could "just take a quick look" at their slide deck before...
Productivity
The average office worker checks email somewhere around 15 times a day, and many people check far more often than that without...
Time Management
For most of my twenties I believed I was bad at time management. Every plan I made ran over.
Games
Anyone who has played a survival or building game knows the small relief of a crafting queue.