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Solve for Now grew out of these. Weekend Upgrade ran for 53 issues, the Action-Powered Newsletter for seven more, and between them they are where most of these ideas were first worked out in public.
Weekend Upgrade
- 01 What's THAT supposed to mean?
- 02 Again and Again and Again and...
- 03 What's next?
- 04 Coaches and Players
- 05 Turn friction into action
- 06 Outsource Your Future
- 07 As easy as 1-2-3
- 08 Delegate to yourself
- 09 Repeat the past
- 10 The Urgency Illusion
- 11 The BOMR Mindsets
- 12 Levels of Want
- 13 Finding your Rhythm
- 14 Write your reality
- 15 Connect your checks!
- 16 Feelings and Friction
- 17 Lazy Man’s Productivity
- 18 Recurrence is efficiency
- 19 Narrative Dictation
- 20 Projects Are Hubs
- 21 Task Horizons
- 22 Theme Park Rides and Productivity
- 23 Hub and Subsystems
- 24 Create a Daily Agenda
- 25 Diagram for Clarity
- 26 Deploy workflows
- 27 Productivity Paralysis
- 28 Tips for Collaborating with AI
- 29 Capacity Overload
- 30 Action-Powered Productivity Cycles
- 31 Optimize your Second Brain
- 32 Handwritten notes, saved from the void
- 33 Expand your text
- 34 Inbox Nero
- 35 Surface Tension
- 36 Bridge to the Middle
- 37 Bridges, Bridges, Everywhere!
- 38 Do Less Work
- 39 Bridges and Boundaries
- 40 High-speed Capture
- 41 Small Bridges, Big Work
- 42 Notes and Action
- 43 How to write a task
- 44 Capture Recurrence
- 45 Strategies and Importance
- 46 Composers & Conductors
- 47 Rhythms of Recurrence
- 48 Roles Over Goals
- 49 Your Transforming Toolkit
- 50 Play Your PART
- 51 That's Where the Money Is
- 52 Decisions, Decisions
- 53 Friction and Bridges
Action-Powered Newsletter
- 01 Don't Get Organized, Take Action
- 02 Minimum Requirements for an Effective Productivity Toolkit
- 03 Get Real: Start from Where You Really Are
- 04 Imitate, Iterate, Innovate: Assembling Your Productivity Toolkit
- 05 Exponential Productivity: AI to the Nth Power
- 06 We Don't Do Important Work, We Do Easy Work
- 07 Intention, Attention, Action: The Miracle in the Middle
Solve for Now grew out of these. The new essays pick up where they left off—one problem, solved, every Friday.