The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity - pmarca *ARCHIVE* - bit.ly/1z2b3V

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- Having enjoyed such fine purveyors of prodporn as Merlin Mann, Danny O'Brien,Gina Trapani, David Allen, and Tim Ferriss
- called A Perfect Mess
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- - This one is from the great Robert Evans.
  - (Hold out for the audiobook -- trust me.)
  - Do something you love.
  - Turns out Robert Benchley wrote about structured procrastination back in 1949. Wonderful essay -- highly recommended.
  - Finally, I discovered after writing this post that Paul Graham talks a bit about the role of time and focus in personal productivity in his essay on "The Power of the Marginal".
  - : http://www.ianwyatt.com/entry/top_5_priorities_ivy_lee_and_bethlehem_steel/
  - . http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Other-Secrets-Time-Management/dp/0340909129/
  - http://blog.jedchristiansen.com/2009/10/15/a-marc-andreessen-blog-archive/
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- Productivity porn (or, for those really in the know, "productivity pr0n") consists of techniques, tactics, and tricks for maximizing personal productivity -- or, as they say, "getting things done".
- The best way to to make sure that you are never asked to do something again is to royally screw it up the first time you are asked to do it.
  
  Or, better yet, just say you know you will royally screw it up -- maintain a strong voice and a clear gaze, and you'll probably get off the hook.
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- - Do email exactly twice a day -- say, once first thing in the morning, and once at the end of the workday.
    
    Allocated half an hour or whatever it takes, but otherwise, keep your email client shut and your email notifications turned off.
    
    Anyone who needs to reach you so urgently that it can't wait until later in the day or tomorrow morning can call you, or send a runner, or send up smoke signals, or something else.
  - But what you're really doing is fracturing your time, interrupting your flow, and killing your ability to focus on anything long enough to get real high-quality work done.
  - This is great -- half the time they didn't actually need to talk to you, and the other half of the time they can send an email that you can process at the end of the day during the second of your two daily email sweeps.
    
    Here's the best part: you don't actually have to be listening to anything.
    
    Hell, you don't even have to have the headphones plugged into anything.
  - Only agree to new commitments when both your head and your heart say yes.
  - And this doesn't mean something that you love doing in theory -- but rather, the core thing you love doing in practice.
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Alex Ko
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- It's really easy to get asked to do something -- a new project, a nonprofit activity, a social event -- and to have your head say yes and your heart say no, and then your mouth says yes.
  
  The next thing you know, you're piled up with all kinds of things on your schedule that sounded like a good idea at the time but you really don't want to do.
  
  And distract you from the things that really matter.
  
  And make you angry, and bitter, and sullen, and hostile.
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