HeyJaredCalm Productivity
I write about execution systems, calm productivity, and tool workflows—so busy people can focus, finish, and stay sane.
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I Built a Better To-Do App. Then I Still Worked Late (opens the original)
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I recently built myself a simple to-do app. I wanted somewhere to quickly capture tasks, mark the difficult ones as frogs, identify deep work, and block time on my calendar. It was designed around how I like to work, rather than making me fit someone else’s system.I was pleased with it. Then I noticed something slightly embarrassing for someone who writes about Calm Productivity: on some days, I was still postponing tasks and working late at night.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" hre
🎧 Calm Operator, Ep. 1: Thirty Years, Two Exits, One Bad Belief (opens the original)
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Don't Let AI Do Your Rep (opens the original)
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I spent last weekend inside an AI mastermind with building agents, automating workflows, watching AI draft in seconds what used to take me an afternoon. I was genuinely excited. But then I read Bill Gates's new essay. And it sobered me up fast. It’s worth reading. Do not miss it.Gates's pitch is the one you've heard: AI could be the greatest equalizer ever invented. Free doctors. Free tutors. Free legal advice. Intelligence becoming as common as electricity. His
The Notes App I Finally Stopped Switching Away From (opens the original)
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I’ve started my note system over four times in the last few years.Notion first. I built the databases, the templates. Then opened it two weeks later to write one sentence and spent twenty minutes just finding where that sentence was supposed to live.Then Evernote. Paid for it for years. Then I lost notes in it. Actual notes. Gone. That was the end of the trust, even if the subscription kept running a while longer.Then Apple Notes, because it was already on my phone and free felt right after Ever
You Can’t Actually Leave (opens the original)
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Try this right now. Open your calendar and look for fourteen days in a row where you could vanish completely. Phone off. Inbox closed. Nobody on earth needs a decision from you specifically for two full weeks.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" hei
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