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Over the past 12 months, I’ve shared over 400 articles on how to find more meaning and creativity in your daily work through my weekly newsletter.

Below, I’ve pared that list down to my 36 favorite pieces of writing across the categories of productivity, creativity, careers, technology, and well-being. Plus, a shortlist of my most popular posts on this blog.

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My Most Popular Posts

 
• How to Feel Progress
• Why You Need White Space in Your Daily Routine
  
• How to Maintain Your Sanity (and Be Productive) When You Work Alone
• You Can’t Be Creative Without Being in Your Body
• The Problem with the “What Else?” Mindset
• Saying “No” with Grace

Productivity

 
• The Importance Trap
• 26 Time Management Tricks I Wish I’d Known at 20
• Darwin Was a Slacker, and You Should Be Too
• Five Ways to Benefit from Embracing Spontaneity and Disorder
• What Gets Measured, Gets Managed
• Habit Fields

Creativity

 
• How Aha! Really Happens
• Being Bored Makes You More Creative
• Why “Crop Rotation” Is the Key to Great Creative Work
• For Better Brainstorming, Tell an Embarrassing Story
• Creative Output vs Creative Input
• Everyone Can Contribute

Careers

 
• Is the Gig Economy Working?
• A Simple Trick for Enjoying Your Success
• Questions You Didn’t Know to Ask about Work and Money
• The Miracle of Compound Interest Can Also Apply to Your Career
• When Choosing a Job, Focus on Fun
• Networking Is Overrated

Technology

 
• The Web Began Dying in 2014
• Immature Architects Built the Attention Economy
• How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
  
• A Sociology of the Smartphone
• Tech’s Moral Reckoning
• Build a Better Monster

Well-Being

 
• The Burnout Epidemic
• Comparing Up vs Comparing Down
• 12 Truths About Life and Writing
• Small Things to Change Your Life for the Better
• The Alternative to Thinking All the Time
• To Be Happier, Focus on What’s in Your Control
• Things You Can Control

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