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Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact

Ditch Your To-Do List and Use These Docs To Make More Impact

After tackling startup challenges from Stripe Press to Figma Education, Brie Wolfson shares her personal collection of templates — the docs that she's used to stay focused on the work that matters and true to her own career goals.
Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team

Better Meetings Make for Better Days — 20 Tactical Ideas to Try Out With Your Team

We're spending more time in meetings than ever. The sharpest folks we've interviewed share their best tips for making sure this time is well spent.
Making Self-Care Tactical — Why You Should Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths

Making Self-Care Tactical — Why You Should Focus on Boundaries, Not Just Bubble Baths

Therapist Jessmina Archbold (publicly known as Minaa B.) shares her detailed guide to deeper self-care work, pushing back against common myths, offering up tactical advice and making the case for focusing on boundaries.
Our 6 Must Reads for Honing Focus and Managing Your Time

Our 6 Must Reads for Honing Focus and Managing Your Time

How do you find focus in a world of competing priorities? Operate with intention. We share the Review's six best strategies for resisting distraction, boosting productivity and making every minute meaningful.
The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin

Front's CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin shares why a founder’s discipline matters more than vision, unveiling her own best practices and templates for communication, time management, fundraising and team building.
The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation

At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.
Hack Back Distractions with Tactics from This Behavioral Designer

Hack Back Distractions with Tactics from This Behavioral Designer

Hooked author Nir Eyal has seen an epidemic of employees who get so distracted at work that they don’t have time to do their job. Here, he shares tactics that'll help you fend off distractions and help reinstate focus and creativity.
Read This Before Joining as Employee 1 to 20 at a Startup

Read This Before Joining as Employee 1 to 20 at a Startup

Should I work for a startup? Before deciding, find out here the best employee tactics to survive in a starting business and thrive as an early employee.
How Fidji Simo Finds Focus and Creates Conditions for Intentional Work

How Fidji Simo Finds Focus and Creates Conditions for Intentional Work

Instacart CEO and former Facebook VP of Product Fidji Simo shares tactics to master focus in a world where possibilities are endless and the stakes are high.