Most writers think they’re breaking down their tasks—but if you’re still staring at “Revise novel” on your to-do list and feeling stuck, you’ve got a project, not a task. Here’s how to break your work down into do-able chunks that actually get done.
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Last week, I talked about batching: breaking up complex tasks into their component steps, then doing just one step multiple times at once. When all the steps are batched like this, the work on each step goes much faster than if you do all the steps in a complex task one after another, switching your
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One of my very first jobs, after I left high school, was data entry. Thirty of us would punch in numbers from thousands of sheets of engineering reports that had been collected for a month, from across the state. Granted, these days, those same engineers would be punching in their own data on a mobile
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Why You Should Pick Your Priorities …and Stick With Them. Farnam Street have a post in their archives, “Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change” that is worth a slow read through. Seeking out novelty and noticing change was a survival instinct that doesn’t serve us in modern times, because everything is new and novel
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I Used Notion For A Week. 8 Reasons I Switched Back To OneNote Do you want a multitool or a notebook? If you’re shopping for a new notebook app, read on. You might find this breakdown illuminating, for this covers the nitty-gritty of using both Notion and OneNote (Desktop 2016 version). Notebooks are essential tools
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