Superorganizers

How smart people organize what they know.

Mar 3, 2020

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine

Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

Jun 26, 2020

The Notetaking Cold War

Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan

Jun 23, 2020

Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time

Apr 17, 2020

You have to get good before you get better

Two Shorts: Get good then get better, Kevin Yien's OKR template

Sep 16, 2020

The Four Kinds of Side Hustles

The CEO of Kettle and Fire breaks down how he thinks about side business opportunities

May 15, 2020

Polina Marinova Pays Attention to the Little Things

How the creator of The Profile learned to read people — and used it to create a popular newsletter

Jul 25, 2020

How Anne-Laure Le Cunff Wrote 200 Articles In One Year

Mindful productivity helps her stay prolific without burning out

Mar 11, 2020

Seth Godin Hates Being Organized

We talk about how you might be wasting time organizing instead of shipping, how he writes his blog posts, and how he gives speeches.

May 22, 2020

The Fourfold Book Index

How I Take Book Notes

Mar 5, 2020

Forget Forgetting. Build a Zettelkasten.

A networked note-taking method to help you remember more and write better

Jun 18, 2020

How to never lose another memory again

The co-creator of Flow State explains what happens when you put your entire life in bullet points.

Jun 9, 2020

I’m Married to an Emergency Room Doctor in New York City

How fighting the pandemic has changed our lives forever

Aug 11, 2020

The CEO with an Empty Calendar

How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings

Dec 15, 2020

Tasting Notes with Robin Sloan

The bestselling novelist shares his recipe for taking notes that spark novels.

Jul 11, 2020

Is it new or does it suck?

A lot of people ask me for advice on how to get started writing. The pattern I see is fairly repetitive: They get inspired by something. The

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

Jan 26, 2021

How hard should I push myself?

What the science of stress tells us about peak performance

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

The mindful todo list app that's been keeping me focused this week

May 16, 2020

Week 25

25 weeks ago, in November 2019, I wrote this in my Notion: - Write and publish a Superorganizers interview once a week - Find a partner to w

Jun 5, 2020

Organize Your Week with the Weekly Priority Sheet

This week’s article is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and the millions of people who have suffered racial injustice in America. Na

Apr 28, 2020

If your system was a house, would you want to live in it?

In his book Notes on the Synthesis of Form Christopher Alexander writes about how to design buildings: “[A good design is an] effort to ach

Jan 23, 2020

✨Introducing Sparkle ✨

Sparkle cleans your chronically chaotic file system — automatically

Sep 11, 2020

The CEO of No

How entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson turns emails into opportunities

Jul 31, 2020

Follow your heart — with caveats

“Follow your heart” is squishy advice.  It’s a Goop headline. It’s a bumper sticker. It’s something you imagine Adam Neumann plastering on