Welcome! This site is dedicated to giving you actionable recommondations for ways to succeed as a knowlege worker. The core of the site is a writing project I’ve titled ‘Intellectual Craftsmanship’...

Time based reminders come in two forms: Specific time-based events and Recurrences. When dealing with events at a specific time/place your calendar is the best place to track the event. Recurrences...

I will start by saying I am not a believer in to-do lists in their traditional form. To-do lists too often become a list of aspirations and goals rather than a set of actions to be taken. By leavin...

Writing this site required a ton of distillation of so many valuable ideas I’ve come accross through other resources. I’ve attempted to extract the essense without loosing the core idea but natural...

There are very few interesting things that can be accomplished by a lone person. Even if you were able to have meaningful impact without help from others, you still need the ability to get your pro...

You should now have the core guidelines to start to extract ideas from your raw captured notes to translate them into atomic concept focused notes. How do we structure and organize those notes to g...

Most people maintain a calendar and some sort of Todo list but there is a third system that can set you apart from your peers. If you can create an effective reference system, you will be able to i...

Books are the single most valuable places to source big ideas. The longer form allows more depth and lets the author present more interesting and complex arguments that would be difficult if not im...

Your success individually will for a time early in your career rely heavily on your ability to manage the ‘hard’ parts of a job and the tools we have already covered about managing incoming informa...

If you followed the above guidance around capturing, you now have several raw inboxes of information, but they have little value as is. The goal of processing is to take those raw inputs, extract v...