Resources

productivity resources

Commonly shared resources

• Barking up the Wrong Tree: Here’s The Schedule Very Successful People Follow Every Day
• building your personal system, brick by brick
• on decision fatigue and cognitive budgets (part 2): on routines and ‘personal systems’
• 99u: The 5 Types of Work That Fill Your Day
• James Clear: Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

posts to update and link later

• how i work
• on saying no
• on saying no and learning how to have alone time
• on saying no: update part 2
• why i plan my schedule out six weeks in advance
• on decision fatigue and cognitive budgets (part 1)
• on decision fatigue and cognitive budgets (part 2): on routines and ‘personal systems’
• why do your heavy-thinking work in the morning, part 1, part 2
• done is better than perfect
• the difference between projects and tasks
• most productive people: 6 things they do everyday
• turns out highly functioning people don’t rely on their self-control
• on the ability to discern between urgency and importance
• writing for an audience of one
• why having functioning systems is importance for stress-free productivity
• overwork undermines love and is collapsing our society
• on mentoring and being mentored
• out in the world is better than in your head
• on systems change and accountability (basically, everyone i’ve worked with so far has benefitted from some type of accountability * - whether it’s a daily text, or the international writing email thread)
• feeling productive actually makes you more productive (no joke)
• productivity tip: reward yourself when you accomplish a goal
• 3 self-care techniques
• how to decide what to do in a particular moment
• how to decide what to do in a particular moment: part 2
• manager time vs maker time
• the six things the most productive people do everyday
• why highly productive people don’t use a lot of self-control
• writing tip: hemingway style
• how my masters thesis changed my life
• pomodoro: the 2-min video
• pomodoro: the get started guide (1 min read).
• building your personal system, brick by brick
• balancing your personal system week to week
• The afternoon slump is normal: work with it; not around it
• why i don’t drink coffee in the afternoon
• Three Types of Work in Getting It Done, or GTD
• self-driven change is hard: be forgiving of yourself
• Time management skills are stupid. Here’s what works.
• the diversity/bandwidth tradeoff
• most stress comes from not finishing what you’ve started
• habit breaking tips: replacing one habit for another and have accountability
• Build a Better You, One Habit at a Time
• ira glass on taste, the gap, creation, and curation
• meditation is like muddy water settling
• the costs of “multi-tasking”: why task-switching is expensive
• turns out, you can’t be good friends with everyone (aka the hardest lesson i’ve learned this year)
• why hanging out with close friends is life giving and a necessity (aka the benefits of hanging with close friends)
• why running your life like a startup will help you get where you want to go faster
• how to make the most of the startup that is your life
• Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.
• Basic GTD: Deal with your agreements

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network resources

Barr Fellows

• http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/claire-reinelt/2011-06-23/barr-fellowship-network-case-study
• https://vimeo.com/124663351
• Only Connect: How an Investment in Relationships Among Social Change Leaders Is Changing Them, Their Organizations, and Their City

System Shifting Networks

• https://networkweaver.com/collective-impact-system-shifting-network-approach/
• https://networkweaver.com/system-shifting-networks/

Network Culture Practices

• https://www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/25-behaviors-that-support-strong-network-culture
• Network-ing Does Not Equal Network WEAVING
• THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman

Network Leadership Roles (2.0)

• http://interactioninstitute.org/network-leadership-roles-2-0/

grief

videos

• Sobonfu Some - Grieving and Recovery
• Joanna Macy - World as Lover, World as Self: The Wisdom of our Grief and Outrage (90m)
• francis weller on grief @ the minnesota men’s conference (13m)
• new school commonweal: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

articles

• five stages of grief
• misconceptions about the 5 stages of grief
• Embracing Grief: Surrendering to your sorrow has the power to heal the deepest of wounds

practices

• joanna macy: death meditation
• sitting shiva
• artist’s grief deck

podcasts

• State of Emergence: Letting Grief Open Us to Grace
• 5 podcasts about grief

books

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
• The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel
• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
• goodreads listopia grief book list

accountability resources

• support ny: Our Accountability Process Curriculum
• support ny: accountability process agreement
• videos: barnard center for research on women: Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability: Mariame Kaba, Stas Schmiedt, and Lea Roth

decision-making

• autumn brown on consensus decision-making

caucusing/affinity groups

• Caucuses as a Racial Justice Strategy - JustLead Washington

sabbatical resources

• original mind residency (ht brian stout)
• rest rail

check-ins / energizers

• group energizers from IISC
• css: checking in to prevent checking out