Superorganizers

How smart people organize what they know.

Oct 4, 2021

Do “Stress Cancelling” Headsets Work?

Reviewing a wearable device that uses special vibrations to help you "stress less" and "sleep 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.

Dec 12, 2023

How David Perell Writes an Essay

Harnessing the power of surprise to create writing that spreads

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

Nov 6, 2020

Action Item: How to become indistractable

We break down Nir Eyal's system for turning down the noise and getting work done

Nov 17, 2020

Action Item: The Quest to be Good at Everything

The co-founder of Bark shares his 8 + 1 system for becoming excellent at life

Jan 21, 2020

How To Run Your Life Inside of Notion

Marie Poulin gives a tour through the most impressive Notion setup I've ever seen

Apr 1, 2020

How To Build A Digital Zettelkasten

Effortlessly link ideas together with Roam Research. It’s like a bank account for your brain

Apr 23, 2020

Use a Zwicky Box To Solve Hard Problems in Unexpected Ways

A simple tool to help you beat your own psychology and reliably create novel solutions to any challenge

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

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

Jul 23, 2020

How New Ideas Happen

“The first step to a new cosmogony is a step back” — Paul Feyerbend, Against Method Raise your hand if you’ve murdered an idea.  I have. It

Mar 18, 2021

How to see the future

An MIT PhD reveals his process for researching the future of programming

Sep 2, 2022

When Productivity Tools Make the Problem Worse

You’re using your todo list for something deeper than tasks

Oct 29, 2021

How David Perell writes an essay

Harnessing the power of surprise to build writing that spreads

Jun 9, 2020

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

How fighting the pandemic has changed our lives forever

Jul 8, 2020

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

Adobe’s CPO on relentlessly taking action even on the problems no one is talking about

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

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

Nov 11, 2020

A Sneak Peak At a Next Generation Personal CRM

A preview of Clay + access to Hebbia.ai

Apr 23, 2021

Will Worrying Make You Better?

In fourth grade my teacher referred to me in a report card as a “nutty professor.” The verdict from the elementary academy was clear: Head i

Aug 22, 2020

Organizing Superorganizers

Happy Saturday! For a long time I’ve wanted to make the Superorganizers archive more useful. There’s a ton of information in there, but the

Feb 14, 2025

How the Founder of RadReads Finds ‘Extreme Simplicity’

Khe Hy on the joy of regressing

Oct 1, 2021

The Theology of Productivity

Exploring why productivity can feel empty, and how we can make it whole again

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