Productivity Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about productivity on BlogRolly.

Could you be experiencing Burnout ? — Feeling wiped out despite success? I lay out workplace burnout signs, share Deloitte stats, and name the patriarchal gui
3 ways to stay efficient with your workouts — Short on time but still want real results? I share 3 practical time-saving workout tips for busy moms that cut my sessio
Mindfulness Techniques to Boost Workplace Productivity: Embracing Workplace Mindfulness Techniques — Swamped by emails and meetings? In this post I walk through workplace mindfulness techniques that actually work. You'll
Here’s How Your Ebike Can Pay For Itself — You can earn back an ebike fast. I show exactly how your ebike can pay for itself using DoorDash, Uber Eats and other gi
A Day Out Using My Credit Card Benefits — Ever turn credit card perks into a day of free fun? I used my Chase Sapphire Reserve Stubhub credit to grab 12th row Vik
3 Random Life #Hacks — Want three silly life hacks that actually work? I used a kitchen trash bag hack, shoving the whole roll into the bin so
The tyranny of targets — A running watch taught me a lesson about the tyranny of targets. I use C Thi Nguyen's The Score and my fitness-tracking
Traffic Congestion For Plumbers — Surprising fact: Julius Caesar once banned carts to beat congestion. With plumbing roots and a love of roads I explain t
sanity.pl — Sick of escaping long filenames in FTP? I made sanity.pl to rename files to a sane name, replacing spaces with underscor
How To Create The Conditions For Good Things To Happen — Want fewer process mistakes? In this post I show how leaders create the conditions for good things to happen by making t
Time Versus Inspiration — Sometimes finding peaceful time feels like walking through mud, and balancing work and creativity becomes a messy juggle
All The Things — Same person, new year, no resolutions, only resolve. I reflect on product fatigue from "best of everything" affiliate li
Keyboard news — Could one more keyboard be justified? My mechanical keyboards habit now includes a Keychron K10 with purple gradient bla
Skewed Perspective — Stuck in a treadmill week? I lean on an Oblique Strategies deck to skew perspective and get unstuck. This post shows how
Journaling — What if one daily note could hold both my work log and personal goals? I'm trying a week of daily journaling to integrat
An 829% Increase in Email Optin Rates by Making One Change — Want a dramatic email optin boost for your blog? In this post I show how a Bloom Locked Content optin on one article pro
Simplifying how I work with photos — Less fuss, more photos on this trip. I explain how I simplify my photo workflow by ditching a giant Capture One library
My ideal phone — Could a focused, repairable productivity phone exist? For me the ideal phone pairs a phone with physical keyboard and a
Design and disappointment — Tired of fighting for design in every company? I became a front-end developer who cares about design, doubled down as a
I removed the computer — What if your desk stopped being a digital trap? I removed the computer from my desk and wrote about rebuilding a creativ
Tracking — What if tracking your hobbies helped you be less productive and more creative? I used to hate tracking time spent on hob
Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro — A courtside NBA clip showed the Vision Pro's promise, but Apple still misses the point. I tried the M5 Vision Pro, teste
The devil is in the details — Small decisions stack up. Naming, edge cases, defaults those tiny choices shape how software feels and fails. I reflect
How much is too much? — There’s a point where more features, more effort, more optimization stop helping. I’m thinking through overengineering,
Focus on one thing, and one thing only — Splitting attention feels productive until nothing gets finished. I’m working through the discipline of choosing one pri
An idea on distraction — Distraction isn’t just about phones it’s structural. I’m experimenting with how attention gets fragmented across tools,
The Work I Did After I Stopped Working — When I stepped away from my job, I didn’t stop working I just did different work. Reflections on burnout recovery, quiet
Life doesn’t reward where you start - it rewards how far you’re willing to go — I reflect on why life doesn’t reward where you start but instead rewards how far you’re willing to go. I share how begin
Mind over technology — I reflect on how our minds should drive technology not the other way around. Instead of letting tools dictate how we thi
Four Hours of Knowledge Work — Contends most people have 4 truly productive cognitive hours; design days around protecting that block instead of fillin
Much shorter weeks — Argues most knowledge work should be 3–4 focused days; beyond that, marginal output drops and burnout rises.
Weeknote 18 — Week 18: New client onboarding, Camden Market people-watching, custom Webflow animations. Balanced discovery calls with
Weeknote 16 — Week 16: Newsletter growth tactics, Brick Lane vintage shops, Astro framework experiments. Celebrated subscriber milesto
Weeknote 8 — Week 8: User testing sessions, Hampstead Heath hike, SVG icon set creation. Reflected on work-life boundaries during sun
Weeknote 5 — Week 5: Remote workshop facilitation, Borough Market food adventures, Notion template experiments. Dealt with Tube delay
Weeknote 2 — Week 2: Typeform freelance, brutalist architecture spotting, weekend bike rides through south London parks. CSS animatio
Why You Want to Customize Google Analytics Channels (And How) — Shows why default channel groupings in Google Analytics hide important insights, then walks you through customizing them
Box Plots: The Unsung Heroes of Data Analysis — Makes the case that box plots are underrated, showing how they reveal distributions, outliers, and variability far bette
How to Pick an AI Model for Your Chatbot — Offers a decision framework for choosing models for chatbots, balancing cost, latency, safety, and task complexity for b
The 6 Biggest Mistakes that Tank AI Projects — Breaks down six common ways AI projects fail like unclear objectives or bad data and how to avoid wasting time and money
How I Used Natural Language Processing to Build a Search App — Walkthrough of building a search app with NLP, covering data prep, model selection, and evaluation so non‑researchers ca
50 Real-World AI Agent Use Cases That Actually Work — A hefty roundup of real AI‑agent use cases from marketing ops to support and research that are already delivering value,
Prompt Engineering or Fine-Tuning: Which Is Best for Your AI Project? — Weighs the trade‑offs between clever prompts and full fine‑tuning, helping teams choose the right approach based on budg
Bad Vibes in Your Codebase? How to Prevent AI Tools from Going Rogue — Warns about subtle risks of dropping AI tools into your dev stack, from mis‑generated code to security holes, and offers
How To Train Your Drag- LLM Not To Be a Sycophant — Looks at why LLMs tend to agree with users too much and shows how prompt design, feedback, and fine‑tuning can encourage
Making AI Explainable to Non-Technical Stakeholders — Shares strategies for turning opaque AI outputs into clear stories stakeholders understand, focusing on visualization, a
Boosting Prediction Model Performance Through Feature Engineering — Practical guide to using feature engineering to squeeze more accuracy from prediction models, with concrete examples tha
Tech Sketch: Automation vs LLMs vs Agents — Compares classic automation, large language models, and AI agents, clarifying when each makes sense, how they differ, an
Why Your Best Work Requires You to Work Less — Argues that overwork undermines creativity and quality, and that simplifying commitments and working fewer, more focused
10 Powerful Self-Motivation Techniques — Practical list of self‑motivation techniques you can use when you feel stuck or uninspired, from breaking goals into tin