"All the productivity advice I've ever read preached the exact same underlying concepts and ideas. Sleep well, eat well, exercise, eliminate clutter, focus on one thing at time, get on an information diet etc. Along the way you get to learn about the the Pareto principle and Parkinson's Law." "In the end, everyone comes up with their personal little system for getting things done. And the discipline you put into following through with your plan is what actually makes it work, not the details or schematics of your plan itself. In the end, it's like Aaron Swartz once wrote, Do It Now. When you become productive, and limit the amount of things you give your attention to, you start acting immediately on whatever task is next on the queue with no second thoughts, quickly iterating between tasks from start to end. That is what some people call flow." - Fred Yankowski