Great Post on Productivity
This is a great post written two years ago on productivity by Marc Andreesen (who will perhaps be the first person to start three $1 billion dollar companies). An effective, yet sample tip from Marc:
- Keep three and only three lists: a Todo List, a Watch List, and a Later List.
The more into lists you are, the more important this is.
Into the Todo List goes all the stuff you “must” do — commitments, obligations, things that have to be done. A single list, possibly subcategorized by timeframe (today, this week, next week, next month).
Into the Watch List goes all the stuff going on in your life that you have to follow up on, wait for someone else to get back to you on, remind yourself of in the future, or otherwise remember.
Into the Later List goes everything else — everything you might want to do or will do when you have time or wish you could do.
If it doesn’t go on one of those three lists, it goes away.
- 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.
And then, the next day, do those things.
