10 Ways to become more effective
1. Spend money and time learning basic and foundational skills
Whether that is learning brushstrokes for painting, sanding for woodwork, or getting really good at basic cooking skills or playing scales on an instrument.
2. Spend time learning how to use your computer more effectively: using keyboard shortcuts and macros
3. Outsource as much as you can to AI and others
Be aggressive and creative about how you can do this. Try to have a machine do something for you at least every day
4. Use Obsidian or a similar Knowledge Management system
5. Accept AI writing suggestions by default
They are correct 90+% of the time.
6. Train yourself to listen and watch material at 2x or higher speeds
7. Make daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual goals
8. maintain a sense of urgency
this is a balance between progress and burnout
9. actively relax
Choose what you do to let you relax. Maybe it will be reading, exercise, artwork, playing chess, or coding, but it is something to give your brain a change.
10. Track your time usage
This is useful to do periodically: perform a time audit. This week, I started using Timelines to discover where all my time was going. The UI is easy to use: you create categories and click on them to start a timer. You can then download a report. So far, I have discovered that I spend a lot of time walking the dog and a lot of time on food prep.
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