A productivity system for one hour a day
Five layers from one yearly goal down to today's step, plus a review.
I give Gaapp about one hour a day. With an hour, a to-do list does more than slow you down. It eats the hour, because the loudest item wins and the step that moves the goal waits for next week.
So this week is about the structure I put around that hour. It answers one question before the hour starts: what is the one step that moves the goal today?
Productivity System: Build Leverage, Not a To-Do List
Five layers, from one yearly goal down to today's step, plus leverage and a weekly review. You can set it up in one evening and run it in about ten minutes a day.
How to Be More Productive Without Doing More
In a study of munitions workers, output at 70 hours a week differed little from output at 56. Five subtractions to try for two weeks before you add any new tool.
Done List: Why It Beats Your To-Do List
A to-do list counts what is still open, so every day starts in debt. A done list starts at zero, and a two-minute routine is enough to begin today.
What changed this week
- GitHub Agentic Workflows are generally available Chores like issue triage and CI failure analysis can now run as scheduled agent jobs in GitHub, and a small, narrow agent like that is a good first piece of leverage for one person.
- Claude Code v2.1.314 can keep file edits inside the working directories A new permission setting makes Write, Edit and NotebookEdit refuse paths outside the working directories in every mode, worth switching on if your agents run unattended.
- OpenAI now gives API credits to its $100, $200 and $500 subscribers Anthropic did the same for Max and Team earlier this month, so if you already pay for a plan, check whether your scheduled jobs can run on those credits.
One question back: what is the one step that moves your goal this week? Hit reply and tell me.
