Tag: Productivity

The most productive people I know are also the laziest — in the right way. They automate mercilessly, delegate to machines, and refuse work that doesn't need doing. AI makes this approach accessible to everyone. Here's how to be strategically lazy.

Sprint planning sessions that pull every team member into a room for two hours are a drag on productivity. Not everyone needs to be there — here's how alignment should actually work across teams, and why selective participation produces better plans.

Side projects used to be an all-week affair — late nights, lunch breaks, any spare moment. But as work demands grew, I learned to protect my weekends for the code that matters most. Here's why side projects became a weekend ritual and how that shift made me more productive at both.

Last quarter I shipped more working software than the entire year before it. Not because I worked harder. Because I finally admitted the bottleneck was never my typing speed — it was everything else.

The most valuable thing Claude gave me isn't better code. It's the removal of the psychological friction that kills most projects before they start. When you have a judgment-free thinking partner available at 2am, you ship things you'd have talked yourself out of.