Energy Management Is a Distraction: The Case for Attention Architecture
Why optimizing your energy optimizes the wrong variable entirely
Why Productive People Fail at Rest: The Pathology of Achievement Orientation
Achievement-oriented identities systematically destroy the recovery capacity that sustained excellence requires.
The Competence Trap: Why Getting Better Makes You Worse
Mastery imprisons as much as it empowers—escape requires the courage to become a beginner again.
Time Boxing Is Dead: Why Flexible Boundaries Outperform Rigid Schedules
Rigid calendars create the illusion of control while fragmenting the deep work that actually matters.
Strategic Ignorance: The Productive Power of Not Knowing
Why the most effective strategists deliberately limit what they know—and how to design your own productive blindspots.
Antifragile Productivity: Building Systems That Strengthen Under Pressure
Design productivity systems that use chaos as fuel for improvement rather than treating it as damage to be minimized.
The Minimum Effective Dose for Every Life Domain
Discover the precise effort thresholds that achieve results across every domain—then strategically redirect everything above them toward what matters most.
The Delegation Threshold: When Doing It Yourself Costs More Than You Think
A rigorous framework revealing why self-sufficiency often costs more than you calculate—and how to find your true delegation boundary.
Why Your Best Practices Are Someone Else's Dead Ends
Why universal productivity advice systematically fails and how to build self-experimentation frameworks that actually match your unique context and constraints.
Decision Fatigue Is a Myth: What's Really Depleting Your Judgment
The science of willpower depletion has collapsed—here's what actually degrades your judgment and how to protect it.
Second-Order Productivity: Building Systems That Improve Themselves
Move beyond static methods to dynamic frameworks that automatically correct, compound, and evolve—building productive capacity that grows without proportional effort.
The Productivity of Productive Procrastination
Master the counterintuitive art of strategic delay to transform procrastination from personal failure into competitive advantage.
The Productivity Paradox: Why Optimizing Everything Destroys Your Best Work
Mastering when to optimize and when to protect productive inefficiency separates breakthrough performers from those who merely stay busy.
The Attention Portfolio: Managing Your Cognitive Capital Like an Investment
Transform scattered cognitive effort into strategic allocation by treating your finite attention as the investment portfolio it actually is.