(From http://pmarca-archive.posterous.com/the-pmarca-guide-to-personal-productivity)
- Let’s start with a bang: don’t keep a schedule.
- Keep three and only three lists: a Todo List, a Watch List, and a Later List.
- Each night before you go to bed, prepare a 3x5 index card with a short list of 3 to 5 things that you will do the next day.
- Then, throughout the rest of the day, use the back of the 3x5 card as your Anti-Todo List.
- Structured Procrastination.
- The other key two-word tactic: Strategic Incompetence.
- Do email exactly twice a day — say, once first thing in the morning, and once at the end of the workday.
- Don’t answer the phone.
- Hide in an IPod.
- Only agree to new commitments when both your head and your heart say yes.
- Do something you love.
- Do email like this:
- First, always finish each of your two daily email sessions with a completely empty inbox.
- Second, when doing email, either answer or file every single message until you get to that empty inbox state of grace.
- Third, emails relating to topics that are current working projects or pressing issues go into temporary subfolders of a folder called Action.
- Fourth, aside from those temporary Action subfolders, only keep three standing email folders: Pending, Review, and Vault.
There are a bunch on links in the original post, so it makes sense to go check it out.
I don’t agree with all of them, but to each their own.
