Public Speaking & Presentations
Body Language for Presenters: What to Do With Your Hands
Gestures gave listeners a moderate boost in understanding in a 2019 meta-analysis of 83 samples. Where to rest your hands, what to show and what to skip.
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Sleep & Rest
Chronotypes Explained: Are You a Lark, an Owl, or Somewhere in Between?
Most people are neither larks nor owls. How chronotypes are measured, what 351 gene regions, age and light do to them, and what owl headlines omit.
Project Management & Execution
Scrum vs. Kanban: Which One Fits Your Team?
Scrum runs in sprints of up to 1 month; Kanban caps work in progress instead. Which fits support, product and mixed teams, and what the evidence shows.
Side Hustles & Extra Income
Does a Side Hustle Help or Hurt Your Main Job? What the Research Says
Does a side hustle help or hurt your main job? A 2020 review found the evidence split; newer studies link it to better performance and distraction at once.
Productivity Systems & Methods
Toxic Productivity: When Self-Optimization Goes Too Far
Toxic productivity has no clinical definition. What 4 lines of research show, from workaholism to busyness as a status symbol, and when to ease off.
Purpose, Happiness & Life Design
The Midlife Crisis: Myth, Reality, and the Happiness U-Curve
About 1 in 4 US adults in one study said they had had a midlife crisis. What the happiness U-curve shows, and why studies of the same people disagree.
Productivity Systems & Methods
Getting Things Done: A Beginner's Guide to GTD
Getting Things Done for beginners: GTD's 5 steps, a minimal setup and a first-week plan, with each step labelled by what backs it, research or David Allen.
Passive Income & Wealth Building
Passive Income Scams: The Patterns Behind the Pitches
Passive income scams reuse 5 patterns, from returns that cannot fall to upsell ladders. How to spot each one, and where to report a scam by country.
Organization & Decluttering
How to Get Organized With ADHD
How to get organized with ADHD in 5 steps that put reminders in the room instead of your head, and what 2010 trials of skills therapy for adults found.
Note-Taking & Knowledge Management
The Cornell Note-Taking Method: How It Works and When to Use It
The Cornell note-taking method splits a page into 3 areas and adds 5 steps. Research backs its self-testing step far more than the layout itself.
Organization & Decluttering
How to Declutter Your Home: A Room-by-Room Guide
How to declutter your home in 6 steps: set up exits, start where choices are easy, leave keepsakes for last, and get rid of batteries and medicines safely.
Process Improvement & Business Efficiency
Value-Stream Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide With a Worked Example
Value stream mapping in 7 steps, worked through on an invoice-approval example, plus what reviews find and the step most published maps skip.
Money Mindset & Financial Psychology
Money Anxiety: Why It Happens, How It Shows Up, and What Helps
In a 39-country OECD survey, only 29% of adults said they don't tend to worry about paying living costs. How money anxiety shows up and what helps.
Note-Taking & Knowledge Management
Best Note-Taking Apps Compared: How to Choose
The best note taking apps compared as 6 types, from phone notes to Markdown files: choose by how you capture, how you refind and how your notes can leave.
Networking & Personal Branding
How to Reconnect With Someone You Haven't Spoken to in Years
How to reconnect with someone in 5 steps: why your message is likely more welcome than you expect, what to write first and how to turn one reply into a tie.
Mindset, Discipline & Resilience
Self-Discipline Explained: Skill, Trait, or Just a Well-Designed Life?
Self-discipline is 3 things at once: a trait, a skill and a well-designed setting. What the evidence, including failed willpower tests, says about each.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Types of Meditation Compared: How to Choose One That Suits You
Most types of meditation fall into 3 families. What each one trains, what the trials show, who should go carefully, and a two-week way to test one.
Meetings, Email & Workplace Communication
How to Get Quiet People to Speak Up in Meetings
How to get quiet people to speak up in meetings: 6 steps from research on why employees stay silent, from the decision rule to a private second route.
Procrastination & Motivation
How to Stop Procrastinating: 15 Strategies Backed by Research
15 ways to stop procrastinating, each matched to the cause of delay it targets and graded by its evidence, from if-then plans to self-set deadlines.
Mindset, Discipline & Resilience
Self-Compassion Explained: What Kristin Neff's Research Shows
Kristin Neff defines self-compassion in 3 parts. What research shows on distress, motivation and training, and the open dispute over how it is measured.
Mindfulness & Meditation
Meditation Apps: What the Research Says About Whether They Work
Mindfulness apps eased depression and anxiety symptoms a little in trials of up to 8 weeks; in one usage study, about 1 in 20 users still opened one at 30 days.