Hard Work
The importance of hard work to doing great work and why it looks worse than it really is.
Meditations: Perspective
This is the second edition of periodic posts where I share what we're writing, reading, and building at Sunsama as we explore how to work with calm and intention.
Working from home and 'On Solitude'
This is the first of what I hope will be periodic blogposts where I'll share what we're writing, reading, and building at Sunsama as we explore how to work with calm and intention.
Theme days
My work week is broken down into "theme days" where each day of the week has a specific focus. If you manage multiple work streams, it's a good way to work with deep focus.
Rebalancing Work and Life
In striving for work life "integration" we take a look at why it's so hard to take time off in the middle of the day but not so hard to work late into the evening.
Productivity laws
Parkinson's Law, Hofstader's Law, and the Pareto Principle et. al are just adages that neatly describe messy tendencies of complex systems and not immutable physical laws. But it's convenient to fo...
Working like a writer
The daily working habits of writers reveal a number of ways in which we can work better as we attempt creative and intellectually demanding work.
Remote rituals
Five rituals we use at Sunsama to run a calm and focused remote team.