Category: Productivity
GTD vs Building a Second Brain: Which System Actually Works for Business Owners?
If you’ve spent time in productivity circles, you’ve probably encountered both Getting Things Done (GTD) and Building a Second Brain (BASB). They appear regularly in the same conversations, occasionally get…
Why You’re Overwhelmed (And It’s Probably Not What You Think)
You didn’t build a business to feel buried under it. But here you are — starting the week with seventeen things on your list, most of them carried over from…
The Nerd Productivity System: How It Works and Why Business Owners Need It
Most productivity advice is built for people who have too little to do. The systems are clean, the examples use simple tasks, and the whole thing falls apart the moment…
How to Use Claude AI for Productivity (Without the Constant Re-briefing)
You open Claude, ask a question, get a great answer. The next day you open a new chat and start from scratch. It doesn't know what you're working on. It…
The 5 Ds of Productivity
The 5 Ds of productivity is a five-decision triage applied to every task that crosses your desk: Do it, Defer it, Delegate it, Drop it, or Diary it. The rule…
The 3-3-3 Rule for Productivity
The 3-3-3 rule is the simplest daily productivity structure that survives a real schedule. Three hours on your most important deep work. Three shorter tasks that need doing today. Three…
AI Is Powerful. But Only If You Build It on Top of a System.
You Probably Have AI Backwards I’ve been building the Nerd Productivity System for over 10 years. And over the past year, I’ve been layering AI on top of it. What…