productivity hacks

A talk I gave at the Nelson local.foundation talking about various productivity hacks.

Transcript

1. presents founder.hacks
2. Welcome
3. Venue logistics Beers this way Toilets that way
4. Thanks to our sponsors
5. Join us online local.foundation nzstartup.community
6. Upcoming events meetup.com/localfoundation FusionDojo Nelson startup.school.nz
7. Format of the evening - hack time: Lenz Gschwendtner - Q&A - open mic - social time
8. Lenz @norbu09
9. productivity hacks
10. loads of blog posts, books, articles ... … how do people have time to write all of them ...
11. why ...
12. procrastination vs “being productive” what is “being productive” anyway
13. Tasks vs Creative work
14. Let’s look at a few common frameworks
15. Task based
16. GTD Getting Things Done (not the Global Terrorism Database)
18. Inbox zero ties in well with GTD
19. Time based
20. Pomodoro named after the kitchen timer the inventor used, not an actual tomato
22. Need a break? was that 25min already?
23. Some handy tools
24. rescuetime https://www.rescuetime.com/
26. wakatime For the devs: https://wakatime.com
28. Focus https://heyfocus.com ties in with Pomodoro
29. … that was the theory ... or: what works for me
30. Optimise for tasks or creativity ... … or both?
31. reduce cognitive load dare to be boring where it does not matter
32. distraction free environment no popups, no notifications, no phone alarms, no calls, no excuses
33. visible task lists see what needs to be done all the time
34. be “in the zone” loud music through headphones, white noise, darkened room, whatever works for you
35. rituals create habits that tell you what to do next
36. Tasks are a good thing, embrace them Fill your procrastination time with tasks
37. Create your own rituals and define your own split between creative work and tasks
38. Questions? Download slides: speakerdeck.com/norbu09/productivity-hacks