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Strategies for becoming less distracted and improving focus | Nir Eyal (author of Indistractable and Hooked)

Lenny Rachitsky

A tactic: When you feel an urge to do something distracting—like scroll on your phone—try to delay doing it for just 10 more minutes. I’m someone who works out), as a last line of defense against distraction. You’re not saying “no,” you’re just saying “not yet.”

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TEI 259: Become indistractable and get more done better – with Nir Eyal

Product Innovation Educators

I’ve needed to step back and do some meta work to better organize my time. Nir joined us the first year of this podcast, back on episode 030 to discuss how we can build habit-forming products. 4:55] What is the mindset we should use to think about distraction? We don’t know how to stop getting distracted.

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How to write a business book — behind the scenes from THE COLD START PROBLEM

Andrew Chen

At that time, Elad Gil had just published his book and we had a nice convo at MKT’s lounge about a week after his book was out — he had amazing things to say about the process (he writes faster/better than me, in the back of Ubers it turns out), and he said it helped him a lot professionally. So what do you do? Not easy at all.

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Design Metrics That Matter | Jared Spool, UIE | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In the world of KPIs, some practices, like growth hacking Monthly Average Users (MAUs), have hurt the online experience. And what I would like to do is go back to 2010 when a young designer, uh, in Sydney, Australia, uh, decided to, uh, sign a book contract. And we can map this back into our little chart here. Okay, very good.

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Working together while apart – a remote roundtable

Intercom, Inc.

You’ll hear loads of different hacks for optimizing your work-from-home setup – from how to maintain the proper work-life balance to how to build trust among your teammates. Eventually, as the team grew and the role started to expand, I moved back to the Dublin office. But I did that remotely from Berlin for the summer. Dee: Brilliant.