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Solve for Now grew out of these. Weekend Upgrade ran for 53 issues, the Action-Powered Newsletter for seven more, and between them they are where most of these ideas were first worked out in public.

Weekend Upgrade

53 issues

  1. #1 What's THAT supposed to mean?
  2. #2 Again and Again and Again and...
  3. #3 What's next?
  4. #4 Coaches and Players
  5. #5 Turn friction into action
  6. #6 Outsource Your Future
  7. #7 As easy as 1-2-3
  8. #8 Delegate to yourself
  9. #9 Repeat the past
  10. #10 The Urgency Illusion
  11. #11 The BOMR Mindsets
  12. #12 Levels of Want
  13. #13 Finding your Rhythm
  14. #14 Write your reality
  15. #15 Connect your checks!
  16. #16 Feelings and Friction
  17. #17 Lazy Man’s Productivity
  18. #18 Recurrence is efficiency
  19. #19 Narrative Dictation
  20. #20 Projects Are Hubs
  21. #21 Task Horizons
  22. #22 Theme Park Rides and Productivity
  23. #23 Hub and Subsystems
  24. #24 Create a Daily Agenda
  25. #25 Diagram for Clarity
  26. #26 Deploy workflows
  27. #27 Productivity Paralysis
  28. #28 Tips for Collaborating with AI
  29. #29 Capacity Overload
  30. #30 Action-Powered Productivity Cycles
  31. #31 Optimize your Second Brain
  32. #32 Handwritten notes, saved from the void
  33. #33 Expand your text
  34. #34 Inbox Nero
  35. #35 Surface Tension
  36. #36 Bridge to the Middle
  37. #37 Bridges, Bridges, Everywhere!
  38. #38 Do Less Work
  39. #39 Bridges and Boundaries
  40. #40 High-speed Capture
  41. #41 Small Bridges, Big Work
  42. #42 Notes and Action
  43. #43 How to write a task
  44. #44 Capture Recurrence
  45. #45 Strategies and Importance
  46. #46 Composers & Conductors
  47. #47 Rhythms of Recurrence
  48. #48 Roles Over Goals
  49. #49 Your Transforming Toolkit
  50. #50 Play Your PART
  51. #51 That's Where the Money Is
  52. #52 Decisions, Decisions
  53. #53 Friction and Bridges

Action-Powered Newsletter

7 issues

  1. #1 Don't Get Organized, Take Action
  2. #2 Minimum Requirements for an Effective Productivity Toolkit
  3. #3 Get Real: Start from Where You Really Are
  4. #4 Imitate, Iterate, Innovate: Assembling Your Productivity Toolkit
  5. #5 Exponential Productivity: AI to the Nth Power
  6. #6 We Don't Do Important Work, We Do Easy Work
  7. #7 Intention, Attention, Action: The Miracle in the Middle