Do you wake up and check your email while your eyes are still half closed? If so, you might want to rethink your morning routine. The early hours of the day set…

Idea in Brief The Frustration The conventional wisdom is that successful innovation depends on providing an environment where there’s a tolerance for failure…

How I learned to suck less at GTD Like so many before me, I’ve tried and failed at GTD more times than I can count. This is how I finally made it stick. Becky…

At Asana, we strive to practice mindfulness in our approach to all the work we do. In this post, Kimberly Snodgrass, Executive Assistant to Justin Rosenstein,…

Answer by Justin Rosenstein , co-founder of Asana, on Quora . I’m a software developer, designer, and entrepreneur. I’m the co-founder of Asana , team…

November 27, 2018 Part of: Making time for creative work Finding balance Staying on track Having a day job Copied link to guide! Be honest about your 9 to 5…

Have you ever heard of SEMA ? It’s a fairly esoteric system for measuring how good a software team is. No, wait! Don’t follow that link! It will take you about…

What do you do when you start a blog? Most people jump right in. They choose a theme, browse around for awesome plugins, set up Mailchimp and do all this other……

You should hire a polymath but you probably won’t find one. Originally published on JOTFORM.COM It was a meeting of the minds — three of the world’s most…

While working at Lockheed during the cold war, KellyJohnson was reported to have coined KISS (“keep itsimple, stupid”); a principle that suggests glibly…

How to Prioritize: My New System for Planning My Weeks A couple months ago I posted a video about “ How I Organize My Life ” that ended up becoming one of my…

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom It’s hard to win a battle you don’t realise you’re in. It’s even harder if you don’t know all of…

Yes, we have a new social network and I am a proud profile carrying member of the new elite created by an artificial scarcity of invites. A technique now pretty…

Demo Day for our Winter 2018 batch is a week from today. We’re largely focused on preparing companies for their on-stage presentations, but are also working…

The following is an adaption of a presentation I give to YC startups before we have them create their presentation slide decks for Demo Day. Here’s how to make…

Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling were originally tweeted by Emma Coats , Pixar’s Story Artist. Number 9 on the list – When you’re stuck, make a list of what…

The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS Ok not quite $1… After the free-tier expires it will be less than $5,…

Stripe Atlas , which helps internet companies get up and running, frequently gets asked questions by software-as-a-service entrepreneurs on how to improve the…

That big presentation, report, or assignment isn’t going to write itself. And yet, you feel compelled to finish every non-essential task on your to-do list…