This is my productivity hack. I stumbled upon it because it works. I found out later how much it embodies some of the best productivity advice in the world. 1. [Procrastinate on the things that aren't important](http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html) - By doing something worth doing, we're forcing ourselves to [[Stop Before You Start|stop doing]] the things that aren't. 2. [[Atomic Habits|Build habits]] - When we do something worth doing every day, we end up working on similar work repetitively. This builds habits, which is one of the best - if not the best - ways to be productive. 3. [[Stop Making Goals|Focus on the process, not the goals]] - By _doing_ something every day, we stop focusing our energy on what we want to do and start focusing our energy on actually doing what we want. This gets us out of analysis-paralysis. 4. Give yourself big blocks of time - Focusing on the big task of doing the thing work doing forces us to create big blocks of time to work, which is what allows us to do excellent work. - see Cal Newport's [Deep Work](https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-bad-at-working-and-heres-what-to-do-about-it/) idea and other works