Productivity blogs

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, writes short essays on business, creativity, and life, and keeps notes on books he has read.

Top post: Ideas are just a multiplier of execution

Aaron Swartz's personal site, with essays on productivity, politics, media, programming, and hiring.

Top post: I Hate the News (2006)

Evernote's company blog covers its note-taking app, pricing changes, infrastructure moves, and security practices.

Top post: Clearly

Cal Newport, a Georgetown computer science professor, writes about focused work, productivity, and building a career people enjoy.

Top post: After You Vote, Unplug

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, writes about lifestyle design, entrepreneurship, fitness, learning techniques, and his podcast.

Top post: From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

The blog of Zapier, an automation service that connects web apps, with guides on remote work and tooling.

Top post: Guide to Remote Work

James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, writes about habits, decision making, mental models and self-improvement.

Top post: Atomic habits

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, writes short essays on business, programming, simplicity and personal philosophy.

Top post: There’s no speed limit (2009)

John Resig, creator of jQuery and former Khan Academy engineer, writes about JavaScript, programming education, and developer habits.

Top post: Learning Advanced JavaScript

Every is a publication and newsletter network covering AI, business, productivity, and tech, with writers like Dan Shipper and Gareth Edwards.

Top post: Top AI Models Compete in a Game of Diplomacy

Leo Babauta writes about minimalism, habits, focus, and simple productivity.

Top post: The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

Tim Ferriss, author and podcaster, writes about self-experimentation, productivity, learning, and interviews on his blog and podcast.

Top post: Reasons not to become famous

Shane Parrish's blog on mental models, decision making, and learning, drawing on figures like Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett.

Top post: The Munger Operating System: A Life That Really Works

Steve Pavlina writes personal development articles on productivity, sleep experiments, habits, and quitting conventional jobs.

Top post: Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (2005)

Andy Matuschak, a software developer and researcher, writes about learning, spaced repetition, and tools for thought, and created Sparkle.

Top post: Books and lectures don't work

Amit Agarwal's Digital Inspiration (labnol.org) offers tutorials and tools for Google services, Gmail, Chrome extensions and web utilities.

Top post: Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs

Scott Young writes about learning and skill acquisition, including his MIT curriculum challenge and his book Ultralearning.

Top post: Do the Real Thing

Better Humans is a Medium publication with self-improvement articles on habits, sleep, learning, and productivity.

Top post: Lifestyles of the Rich, Young and Homeless

Alexey Guzey writes essays on science, sleep, productivity, and blogging, including a critique of "Why We Sleep."

Top post: “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

Buffer's company blog publishes posts on startup growth, social media marketing, productivity, and work habits.

Top post: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it

Medium publication of essays on startups, careers, productivity and learning, with provocative titles aimed at ambitious readers.

Top post: What are people working on in coffee shops?

Ben Kuhn, a tech worker, writes personal essays on startups, writing, work habits, programming and home setups.

Top post: Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors

Seth Godin writes a short daily post on marketing, work, creativity and business.

Top post: Don't Shave That Yak (2005)

James Somers writes essays on learning, software, writing and science, and has also written for The New Yorker.

Top post: I should have loved biology

Mickey Petersen writes guides, release roundups, and a book about using and customizing the Emacs text editor.

Top post: Emacs: Mastering Eshell

David Cain writes essays on mindfulness, procrastination, habits, and living deliberately rather than by default.

Top post: Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

Brett Terpstra writes about Mac productivity tools, command line utilities, keyboard tricks, and note-taking, including the nvALT app.

Top post: nvAlt: fork of Notational Velocity with MutliMarkdown

David Perell writes essays on online writing, information abundance, and ideas, including a long piece on Peter Thiel.

Top post: Peter Thiel's Religion

Office Blogs is Microsoft's official blog for Office, Outlook, Excel, and related product announcements.

Top post: Wunderlist is now Microsoft To-Do

Marc Andreessen's blog, from his time before a16z, on startups, productivity, and business history, now archived at pmarchive.com.

Top post: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters

Trello's company blog covers product launches, integrations, productivity methods like GTD, and its acquisition by Atlassian.

Top post: Going Beyond the Board: A Whole New Trello Is Here

Merlin Mann's blog on productivity, creativity and working habits, known for the Hipster PDA and personal organization posts.

Top post: The Hipster PDA (2004)

Ethan Mollick, a business school professor, writes about how to use generative AI at work and in education.

Top post: Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

Sebastian Marshall writes about productivity, personal development, business, and history-based lessons on success and ambition.

Top post: The-genius-and-tragedy-of-patrick-mckenzie

Site of philosopher John Perry, built around his essay on structured procrastination, a method of getting work done by putting off other tasks.

Top post: Structured Procrastination

An archive of Marc Andreessen's 2007 blog posts on startups, career planning, productivity, and luck, originally written as pmarca.

Top post: Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)

Fernando Borretti writes about programming languages, compilers, linear types, spaced repetition, and managing ADHD, and designed the Austral language.

Top post: Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022)

Hacker Newsletter is a weekly email that curates the top stories from Hacker News, run by its maintainer for over a decade.

Top post: Hacker Newsletter - 100 issues and 10,000 subscribers

Emacs community figure who writes about Emacs, Org Mode, blogging and note-taking, and publishes the weekly Emacs News roundup.

Top post: Blog

Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes about note-taking, learning, productivity, and mental well-being.

Top post: Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

A Medium publication of personal essays on productivity, creativity, careers, and lifestyle, including music, coffee, and weight loss.

Top post: Listen while you work: The magic of music and what it does to your brain.

Jeff Huang, a computer science professor, shares research data, essays on academic life, and a plain-text approach to productivity.

Top post: Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996

A site on the Zettelkasten note-taking method, with introductions, tool guides, and the note app The Archive.

Top post: Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

Tynan writes personal essays about remote work, travel, conversation skills, projects and unusual life choices, such as buying an island.

Top post: Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location

Tiago Forte writes about personal knowledge management, including the PARA method, note-taking, and building a 'second brain'.

Top post: The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information

Naval Ravikant writes essays and hosts a podcast on wealth, happiness, startups, and ideas from David Deutsch.

Top post: How to get rich without being lucky (2019)

Xah Lee writes tutorials and opinions on Emacs, Emacs Lisp, keyboard ergonomics, and avoiding repetitive strain injury.

Top post: How to avoid the Emacs Pinky problem

Quantified Self is a community site about tracking personal data such as health, food, and productivity, with talks, meetups, and member experiments.

Top post: Effects of a Year in Ketosis [video]

Simple Programmer is John Sonmez's blog on software developer careers, learning, podcasts, and opinions about programming culture.

Top post: The 2016 Software Developer Podcast Awards

Johnny Decimal is a numbering system for organizing files and notes, explained by its creator with posts on areas, categories, and rules.

Top post: What about 00 09

Michael Nielsen writes about augmenting human cognition, with a focus on memory and spaced repetition.

Top post: Augmenting Long-term Memory

Karl Voit writes about Org-mode, tagging, managing files, and keeping control of your own data.

Top post: Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

Nat Eliason writes about note-taking with Roam, careers, productivity, health, and ideas on happiness.

Top post: Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It

Ryan Holiday is an author who writes about reading, note-taking systems, Stoicism, writing, and career advice.

Top post: Career Advice Ryan Holiday Wishes He'd Known Earlier

Tom Ryder writes about Unix tools, Vim, shell usage and older utilities such as ed.

Top post: Using unix as your IDE

Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist, writes about remote work, asynchronous communication, and productivity.

Top post: We Don’t Have an Exit Strategy

Joel Gascoigne, co-founder of Buffer, writes about startups, bootstrapping, traction, remote work, and personal focus.

Top post: Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model - here’s why

Brooks Duggan writes about Apple software, productivity, email habits, interface design, and apps like content blockers and calendars.

Top post: Safari Content Blocker Evaluations

Herman, who runs the Bear blogging platform, writes about minimalist software, small businesses, journaling, and running a product slowly.

Top post: The Bear Manifesto

Forge is Medium's publication on self-improvement, covering career growth, writing, decision-making and work habits.

Top post: How to Become the Best in the World at Something