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Habits are what we are and I'm building an app to change them for the better! And do you know what? It freaking works! Shipping soon - I'm so glad.

@stijnnoorman say no is the slogan of people who have never had their boss text them at 9pm. the real hack is being valuable enough that no doesnt get you fired

The best productivity hack: Say no.

@Glenn6 close this thread. close every productivity thread. open a doc. work for 90 minutes. nobody who actually ships sits in these comments collecting tips like pokemon cards

share your best productivity hack?

@thebeautyofsaas everyone says disappear for 24 hours and then live tweets the experience. you didnt disappear you went to a coffee shop with airplane mode and bragged about it later. real solitude doesnt have a screenshot

one productivity hack nobody tells you is to disappear off the radar for 24 hours. notifications off. no random side quests. just focus on what you want to focus on and let yourself go with the flow. 100% that your efficiency and appreciation for solitude will never be the same

@vividvoid the KPI brain trying to absorb karma yoga is the funniest thing on the timeline. they will turn moksha into a notion dashboard and call it 1 percent better every day

By the way, there *is* a 10x meditation-based productivity hack, but practicing it inalterably changes your psyche so that duty, family and treating other people well become your most important values. So don't fuck with karma yoga if you're just trying to hit your KPIs

@DrKristieLeong every health post on here has the same shape now. its not the X its the Y. its always 2 things. nobody can just say go outside. it has to be a 7 part thread with emojis

🚨 Blue light isn’t the enemy — timing is. Most people treat blue light like a villain at night… but during the day, it’s one of the most powerful productivity tools you have. Here’s how to hack it: 🌅 MORNING / DAYTIME (Blue Light) •Triggers instant alertness •Activates your brain’s wakefulness center (locus coeruleus) •Suppresses melatonin → sharper focus & stable energy •Strengthens your circadian rhythm 🌙 EVENING (Warm Light) •Dim, amber tones → signals melatonin release •Promotes deep relaxation •Prepares your body for quality sleep The Rule: Get bright blue light (sunlight or LEDs) in the morning and early afternoon. Switch to warm, low-intensity light after sunset. This simple Day vs. Evening light strategy is one of the highest-leverage biohacks for energy, focus, and sleep. Save this infographic 📌 What time do you usually get your first bright light exposure? Drop it below 👇 #Biohacking #CircadianRhythm

@edgefills the optimizers cant sit with themselves for 10 minutes without a habit tracker. its not a system its a coping mechanism with a notion template

Endless optimization culture is more of an anxiety disorder than a productivity hack. If there’s no actual end goal to instituting the process, the metrics and artificially created goals imply a kind of lack of purpose. It doesn’t have to be income or career oriented, just personally meaningful — it’s not coincidental that my gym habits got a lot better when I needed to build muscle to stop hurting myself while playing golf. Simply “going to the gym” is an open-ended process if your brain doesn’t shut off during exercises — what exactly are those perpetually toned types working towards? If you’re not embracing imperfection or degradation, there’s no actual utility to the effort expended, it’s just a vanity project or body dysmorphia. Accordingly, these are the people whose advice you should listen to the least

@Stefan_B_Trades the framing that we are victims of the algorithms is a cope. nobody is force feeding you the phone. you reach for it on purpose. own that first and the rest gets easier

Wake-up It is not about having more energy, more time, or more talent. It is about protecting what you already have. We live in a world engineered to destroy your focus. Every app on your phone is competing for your attention. Every notification was designed by some of the most intelligent people alive whose only job is to interrupt you at the right moment to pull you back in. Every advertisement. Every email. Every message. Each one pulling you slightly further from where you were trying to go. And if you are not deliberate about this, if you do not stand guard at the door of your own mind, you will spend your entire life executing someone else's agenda while yours sits waiting. The most valuable thing you own is your attention. Spend it like it is scarce. Because it is

@itsdream_b every productivity guy on here has reinvented walking and called it a system. its just walking. your grandma did it for 80 years and didnt need a substack about it

Walk 30 minutes a day. Leave your phone behind. You’ll improve: – focus – mood – fat loss – mental clarity Simple habits beat complex plans.

@kevin_jordan__ the rules work until the second your brain decides the rule is the problem. lasted me 6 days last attempt. what actually broke the loop was making the morning so boring my brain begged for a notebook

Your phone is the worst medication for your ADHD. It trains your brain to need more stimulation. By 11am your focus reserves are gone. Here are 6 phone rules I follow as someone with ADHD: 1. Phone in another room for first hour of the day 2. Social media in browser only 3. No phone after 8pm 4. Phone across the room when I'm working 5. Notifications off except calls and texts 6. Charged outside the bedroom overnight Do 1 of these and you'll get an extra hour of focus back.

@CoreyWriting the format isnt the disease its the symptom. shorts didnt invent the craving they just monetized it. take away tiktok tomorrow and people would refresh their email 400 times instead

I also think that all the short form videos has to be bad for your attention span.

@jedaltemus tv didnt get dumber the audience did. networks test cuts every 3 seconds because thats what holds the room. its not a creative choice its a retention metric and we voted for it with our thumbs

Today’s shows feel so childish now even as the audience is growing up for some reason they wanna aim these shows for the younger tiktok attention span generation

@billroach_ the bigger problem is people pretending they read books they actually skimmed. half of book twitter is performance art. nobody finished the second half of sapiens and you know it

There are endless amounts of books. Don’t read all books the same way. Some require deep focus and attention and others you can skim and get the point.

@steven_kotler mckinsey loves a clean number. 500 percent sounds great in a slide deck. the actual reps to get into that state look nothing like a productivity tip and everyone keeps selling it like its a 25 minute timer

In a McKinsey study, executives found a 500% increase in productivity while in a flow state. Concluding that even brief periods of deep focus can dramatically outperform hours of fragmented work. In flow states, the brain’s inner critic quiets, time compresses, and action feels effortless. Neuroscientists call it transient hypofrontality. Flow follows focus. Focus has triggers. The good news? Anyone can access this state. #FlowState #PeakPerformance #FlowResearch #StevenKotler #Neuroscience

@gajesh honest answer most people who unlocked it just removed something they used to defend. the vision and path stuff is downstream. you cant focus deeply on a path while still feeding the thing that breaks paths

i’m looking to talk to people who’ve unlocked deep focus in their life and work. happy to pay for your time or donate to a charity you care about. specifically, people who can hold a big vision in their head, build a path toward it, and keep walking that path even when novelty, fear, or distraction shows up. i want to hear the stories that changed your mindset around focus. the moments that forced you to become disciplined. the daily systems, hacks, videos, routines, or mental models that helped you lock in. i have minor ADHD, and i’m trying to find natural ways to work with it – not suppress it. there’s a beautiful abstract world ADHD opens up: weird connections, rapid exploration, parallel ideas, creative jumps. AI has helped me amplify that a lot, especially with coding and parallelizing tasks. but there’s a point where parallelization stops helping. you need to choose one path, sit with it, and laser focus until the thing becomes real. i’m trying to get better at that. if this is you, or someone you know, please comment or DM. also feel free to share any methods, videos, books, or hacks that genuinely helped you focus.

@aartrainey @feedbakery @1Umairshaikh the wild part is everyone keeps blaming the tools. the tool is doing what its built for. you just keep clicking it

@driftapps @feedbakery @1Umairshaikh So true

Best productivity hacks for founders?

@DmitriyUngarov the paid posts complaint is itself a dopamine hit. tweeting "stop overthinking" is overthinking with extra steps. we're all in the same casino

paid posts this… paid posts that… stop overthinking guys focus on your own growth and don’t sell yourself for $5 per post just for quick dopamine same with gym and sport motivation btw 💪 you don’t get huge results after one workout and you don’t build strong accounts after one viral post consistency and right focus always wins long term real opportunities come when people trust your voice.

@yajnshri "neuroscientist approved 2 minute reset" is the new "one weird trick". the brain needs hours of nothing, not 2 minutes of an exercise that promises everything

Neuroscientist-approved 2-minute brain reset. Constant screen exposure leads to ‘brain fog’ and loss of focus. This simple protocol balances dopamine release by engaging optic nerves from a different angle, increasing your attention span by 30% in just 2 minutes.Recalibrate your system and reclaim your focus. How to perform: 1. Focus on the center point for 2 minutes. 2. Breathe steadily. 3. Feel the neural recalibration.

@TolentinoTeach good post. but you posted it on the app that broke book reading. people will scroll past it on their way to a video about how to read more

To read a book, you must focus. You must resist distractions and delay cheap dopamine. You must hold ideas in context and think broadly. You must be patient. You must be calm. Few things train the mind to resist modern-day maladies like reading a book.

@iamrydersaurus the 9 percent number is from a study about reaction time in athletes, not focused work. headphones with dnb help me delete code faster, not write better code

Did you know? Listening to high-BPM music like drum and bass can boost dopamine by up to 9% and improve focus & reaction time! Basically a legal performance enhancement 🎧 Drop a 🔥 if you’re feeling this! #DrumAndBass #Wingsuit #edm

@limitlesstack every "focus compound that doesn't touch dopamine" eventually does, your brain just finds the back door. the only sustainable nootropic is going to bed

the best alternative to stimulants for focus would be something that doesn't touch dopamine at all... a compound that boosts RAW energy production it's meldonium. meldonium shifts your cells toward glycolysis why does that matter? because glycolysis generates ATP absurdly fast roughly ~100x faster than oxidative phosphorylation and it requires zero oxygen. the result: - glucose gets converted into usable energy faster - limits fatty acid oxidation - high metabolism even in hypoxic conditions - energy production becomes more resistant to high stress states - more output without forcing your nervous system - the brain gets easier access to rapid fuel