Productivity and Habits

An almanac of proverbs and maxims urging thrift, industry and courtesy.

Effectiveness is learned practice: manage time, pick priorities, decide well.

Valuable work now needs people who do what can't be written into a job description.

Continuous small improvement as the core of Japanese manufacturing success.

Seven habits, from being proactive to win-win, that build personal effectiveness.

A novel applying the theory of constraints to finishing projects on time.

When to push through a hard stretch and when to quit a dead end.

Year-long financial diaries of poor households show how they manage money.

How masters from Leonardo to Faraday found a life's task and served apprenticeships.

The habit loop of cue, routine and reward, and how to change a habit by its routine.

What longer lives do to savings, work and the products people buy.

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Short pieces of advice on living, goals, generosity, careers, family and money.

366 daily lessons on power, seduction, mastery, strategy and human nature.

The plateau and long practice; mastery as a delayed reward

Career capital before passion; building rare and valuable skills

Thirteen principles of getting rich, claimed to come from studying 500 wealthy men.

The size of your thinking sets the size of your results, and how to think bigger.

Two fathers contrasted to argue that schools fail to teach how money works.

Change behaviour by changing what you link with pain and pleasure.

Myth, psychology and Sufi wisdom on how money can become a means of self-knowledge.

A course in the creative process and in living an artist's life.

A nine-step programme that counts spending in hours of life energy.

Survey research showing most American millionaires live modestly and save hard.

A money writer's adventures, from Russian anti-smoking ads to unseen Miami property.

Get more with less by finding the 20% of effort that yields 80% of results.

JL Collins distilled his 'stock series' blog posts into this short, opinionated guide. The core advice is stark: invest in VTSAX, avoid debt, and ignore the noise. Collins wrote it as a letter to his daughter, and that framing keeps it practical rather than academic. The FIRE community treats it as essential background reading.

Get commitments out of your head into a trusted system, and decide next actions.

Extraordinary results come from narrowing focus to the one thing that matters most.

52 principles for getting things done with less stress: mindset, priorities, action.

The case that disorder is often more efficient than imposed order

How a college dropout with no family money made himself a fortune.

Knowledge workers must run their own careers by knowing their strengths and values.

Cognitive science and learning theory applied to thinking and learning better.

A six-week programme to automate banking, credit, saving and investing.

Argues that the quality of a life depends on what a person pays attention to.

The 'Upper Limit Problem': how people sabotage themselves when good things happen.

How 'safe' products, from money funds to principal-protected notes, failed in 2008.

Big goals call for a fourth degree of action, massive action, beyond normal effort.

Why jobs, 401(k)s and frugality are a slow lane, and business ownership a fast one.

Edwardian essay on living deliberately below your means

Self-control as a physical capacity, and how to build it, from a Stanford course.

Ten short lessons on creative work: nothing is original, so copy well.

Learning to cook as a route to learning any skill, with chefs' recipes and tricks.

Run your career the way an entrepreneur runs a startup.

The Dilbert creator's many failures and what they taught him about success.

Plan and work as if a year were twelve weeks long, to keep focus on urgent tasks.

How to learn a new skill fast: break it down, practise well, remove barriers.

A method for finding the few activities that matter and dropping the rest.

Interviews with 50 investors, from Dalio to Bogle, turned into money advice.

Nine principles of lateral thinking that innovators use to reach goals faster.

Build habits by making them obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

Why distraction-free concentration is rare and valuable, and how to train for it.

Productivity as a matter of how people think, set goals, build teams and decide.

Routines, tools and advice from over 200 podcast guests on health, wealth and wisdom.

A daily morning routine, the SAVERS, meant to change results before the day starts.

Seven principles for feeling less pressed for time while getting more done.

Distraction comes from escaping discomfort, not technology, and how to manage it.

An illustrated guide to decluttering and taking control of one's possessions.

An illustrated, shortened version of the book Principles.

Twenty short essays on why behaviour matters more than knowledge with money.

Lioncrest edition confirmed elsewhere.

Step-by-step rules for hosting short, structured parties that build relationships.

Examples of people who turned their concern for the world into their work.

How one day of healthy choices, drawn from studies and old practices, builds a life.

Why people stick too long with failing projects and careers, and how to quit well.