It’s not a full-on “You Are Willing To Devote 100 Hours Of Your Life To Seeing If Self-Help Really Works, Here’s The Best Way For You To Do It”, but I did start working on a flowchart to respond to people who asked me for productivity advice. Many people wanted a list of top tips or something, but this is like giving a list of the top anti-depressants: nearly useless. You don’t need to read a list of 10 ideas, you need to do a list of 1 idea.
The basic structure of what I got asks “Have you tried the pomodoro technique?” and makes a recommendation for giving it a serious try if you haven’t gotten it to work yet. Then if the person has already had major success with the pomodoro technique, or if they’ve deemed that it won’t work for them, it has a few other next major questions. Very much a Version 0.2; I haven’t gotten around to expanding it but it feels like it would be worth doing.
Here’s an email newsletter that’s based on this flowchart (due to lack of limitations in interactivity in email, it doesn’t have the full detail of troubleshooting why the pomodoro technique might not work for someone the first time)
It’s not a full-on “You Are Willing To Devote 100 Hours Of Your Life To Seeing If Self-Help Really Works, Here’s The Best Way For You To Do It”, but I did start working on a flowchart to respond to people who asked me for productivity advice. Many people wanted a list of top tips or something, but this is like giving a list of the top anti-depressants: nearly useless. You don’t need to read a list of 10 ideas, you need to do a list of 1 idea.
The basic structure of what I got asks “Have you tried the pomodoro technique?” and makes a recommendation for giving it a serious try if you haven’t gotten it to work yet. Then if the person has already had major success with the pomodoro technique, or if they’ve deemed that it won’t work for them, it has a few other next major questions. Very much a Version 0.2; I haven’t gotten around to expanding it but it feels like it would be worth doing.
Here’s an email newsletter that’s based on this flowchart (due to lack of limitations in interactivity in email, it doesn’t have the full detail of troubleshooting why the pomodoro technique might not work for someone the first time)
My top productivity tip—for you, specifically