# #productivity — Jan Wilmake's Blog

Posts tagged with **productivity**

## Posts

- [hardware-screenless](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/hardware-screenless.md): 1/1/2024 - Argues against the need for new hardware for AI assistants, proposing that existing simple phones paired with good headphones can deliver bidirectional voice interfaces effectively.
- [Installing MacOS without an internet connection](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/internetless-software-development.md): 1/1/2024 - Investigates creating a completely internet-free development environment with large LLMs, exploring privacy, security, and focus benefits while documenting installation challenges and workarounds.
- [Outcomputed](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2024/outcomputed.md): 1/1/2024 - Predicts the decline of human utility as AI surpasses knowledge workers in capability, proposing becoming "compute allocators" to stay relevant in an AI-dominated future.
- [Communify](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/communify.md): 1/1/2023 - Explores the idea of creating an algorithm to form perfect communities by clustering people together based on purpose-driven alignment, reducing chronic stress and screen dependency.
- [Controllable Immersion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/controllable-immersion.md): 1/1/2023 - Envisions using AR technology to give individuals control over their digital immersion by filtering out unwanted content and ads from their reality, building a Human OS for healthier digital interactions.
- [**Integrating AI into Business Sectors**](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2023/immerse-yourself-in-ai.md): 1/1/2023 - Shares practical insights on integrating AI into businesses, covering GPT applications, privacy considerations, and advice for startups and enthusiasts embracing the AI revolution.
- [Having a clean Mac setup with a super low memory and cpu footprint](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2022/having-a-clean-mac-setup.md): 2/25/2022 - A strategy for maintaining Mac performance by creating an automated setup script for quick resets, combined with using Quitter to auto-close inactive apps and Power Manager to enforce regular shutdowns for optimal memory and CPU usage.
- [Why I like the four seasons in the Netherlands](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/why-i-like-the-four-seasons-in-the-netherlands.md): 5/20/2021 - A personal appreciation of each of the four seasons in the Netherlands, from cozy winter gatherings to spring flowers, summer freedom, and autumn storms perfect for water sports.
- [What is Corona, really, and why should we change our mindset?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/what-is-corona-really-and-why-should-we-change-our-mindset.md): 5/10/2021 - A philosophical perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic as a social construct that has accelerated the separation between people, both online through internet bubbles and in real life through safety measures.
- [Didn't do shit](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2021/didnt-do-shit.md): 1/14/2021 - A deep reflection on productivity struggles and an innovative solution to align short-term dopamine rewards with long-term goals by automating restrictions and rewards through APIs connected to WakaTime coding metrics.
- [Living in harmony with animals](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/live-in-harmony-with-animals.md): 11/18/2020 - Inspired by magpies that recycle bottle caps for food, this article envisions a future where animals serve practical purposes like cleaning trash, delivering packages, and performing tasks instead of robots.
- [Experiment #237: Save 35 hours a week by eliminating the need for the smartphone](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/experiment-237-save-30-hours-a-week-by-eliminating-the-need-for-the-smartphone.md): 11/8/2020 - An experiment to reduce smartphone usage from 5 hours per day by eliminating the need for a phone at home, setting up all phone functions on a Mac instead to break the habit of dreamscrolling and increase productivity.
- [The Dev Lifecycle](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/dev-lifecycle.md): 9/28/2020 - A reflection on the cyclical pattern of working regular jobs to save money, then quitting to work on side projects until broke, and exploring three potential paths to break free from this cycle.
- [Know Thyself. But how?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2020/know-thyself-but-how.md): 9/15/2020 - Exploring the concept of building a platform called MindMirror to help people save their experiences, opinions, and memories in one place to better understand themselves and connect the dots in their lives.
- [#to{anything}](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/hashtag-to-anything.md): 5/21/2019 - A simple productivity technique using hashtags like #toRemember, #toSearch, and #toSay to batch similar tasks together and become more self-reflective and less impulsive during work.
- [How I'm going to try to become 10x as productive within a month](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/how-i-became-10x-as-productive-within-a-month.md): 5/2/2019 - Implementing extreme productivity rules including browser tab limits, locked Freedom.to mode, phone delegation, and codebase-first development to achieve 70 hours of coding per week.
- [The solution to the PO Fallacy - How to code more, and plan less](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/how-to-code-more-and-plan-less.md): 5/1/2019 - Overcoming the PO Fallacy by moving todos into the codebase instead of GitHub to reduce context-switching and increase time spent coding versus planning.
- [Screentime update, April 2019](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/screentime-update-april-2019.md): 4/30/2019 - Reducing daily screen time from 9 hours to 6 hours through digital minimalism, using Freedom.to for blocking distractions, and switching to physical books and dumbphones.
- [The theory of everything and the ultimate equilibrium](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/the-ultimate-equilibrium.md): 4/30/2019 - A philosophical exploration of technological evolution and the need to create equilibrium between humanity and technology to avoid being consumed by our superior creations.
- [Daylight is good for me](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/daylight-experiment.md): 4/25/2019 - An experimental approach to maximizing daylight exposure and restructuring the day into four 6-hour quarters to improve productivity, energy levels, and overall well-being.
- [The Hammock Experiment](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/hammock-experiment.md): 4/25/2019 - Experimenting with sleeping in a hammock for a week and discovering six unexpected benefits including better air flow, easier cleaning, and improved sleep quality.
- [Lean Life](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/lean-life.md): 4/23/2019 - Adopting a lean lifestyle as a solo entrepreneur with rules for freelancing, managing finances, and maximizing time for personal startup projects while maintaining financial security.
- [About Single Tasking and Screen/Window Setup on your Mac and Phones](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/about-single-tasking-and-window-setup.md): 4/8/2019 - Why single tasking with one screen in full-screen mode may be more productive than multi-screen setups for programmers seeking better focus and fewer distractions.
- [MVP within a week](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/poc-within-a-week.md): 4/1/2019 - Offering to build proof-of-concept mobile apps within a week using React Native, Node JS, and SQL with thorough testing and App Store deployment.
- [My Coding Principles](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/my-coding-principles.md): 3/24/2019 - A collection of personal coding principles including avoiding premature optimization, keeping things simple, composition over inheritance, and maintaining low learnability.
- [I just made an app in 26 hours](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/i-just-made-an-app-in-26-hours.md): 3/10/2019 - How I built Dunbar, a relationship management app, in just 26 hours by leveraging high motivation, Expo, minimal boilerplate, and open source libraries.
- [My food goals of 2019: Eat more paleo, ecological and don't go to the supermarket every day](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/my-food-goals-of-2019-eat-more-paleo-ecological-and-dont-go-to-the-supermarket-every-day.md): 2/24/2019 - A detailed monthly grocery plan focused on eating paleo, reducing supermarket trips, minimizing plastic packaging, and spending only 192 euros per month on sustainable food.
- [Changing reachability to increase productivity](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/changing-reachability-to-increase-productivity.md): 1/19/2019 - Increasing coding productivity from 4-5 hours to 6+ hours per day by blocking communication channels on the laptop and keeping the phone physically distant.
- [Fighting housing crises and loneliness with Cheap Community Living](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/fighting-housing-crises-and-loneliness-with-cheap-community-living.md): 1/18/2019 - A vision for affordable pod-based co-living that solves housing crises and loneliness through rating systems, noise-canceling technology, and community-focused design.
- [Perfections VS Speed in Data-driven React Native Apps](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/perfections-vs-speed.md): 1/11/2019 - Why staying with Expo and avoiding native dependencies saves development time and reduces bugs, helping startups ship faster with limited resources.
- [Why code ownership is a must for agile development](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2019/code-ownership.md): 1/5/2019 - Exploring why code ownership is essential for agile development and how feature ownership can diminish inefficiencies and bottlenecks in development teams.
- [Pivoting to a creation-centric metric of productivity](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/pivot-creation-centric-metric-productivity.md): 5/22/2018 - A shift in measuring productivity from passive learning and time spent to active creation and hands-on coding, introducing the Groundhog Day 100 Days of Code challenge.
- [Wet code and inline styles](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/wet-code-and-inline-styles.md): 4/2/2018 - A controversial take on coding practices advocating for inline styles and WET code over DRY principles to prioritize development speed and reduce abstraction overhead.
- [The importance of rooms lies in hyperpolar immersion](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/the-importance-of-rooms-lies-in-hyperbolic-polar-immersion.md): 3/21/2018 - Exploring how different physical and digital environments can create focused immersion states for various goals, especially when living in limited spaces or traveling.
- [It's Nyepi in Bali. Time to reflect](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/its-nyepi-in-bali-time-to-reflect.md): 3/17/2018 - A personal reflection on maintaining a disciplined EAT, CODE, KITE, REPEAT routine in Bali, setting ambitious goals for building community software and creating sustainable technology solutions.
- [My 7 key ways to keep my Code Quality Ultra High](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/high-code-quality.md): 3/13/2018 - Seven key principles for maintaining high code quality, balancing concerns like DRY principles, naming conventions, external dependencies, and reducing time-to-context.
- [Meet iProud: The productivity app for entrepreneurs!](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/iproud.md): 3/7/2018 - Introducing iProud, a productivity to-do app for entrepreneurs built in 2 weeks after 6 months of learning, designed to help users make lists, complete tasks, and connect with others.
- [Must have Tooling & Programs](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/must-have-tooling-programs-for-the-entrepreneurial-full-stack-developer.md): 3/6/2018 - A quick overview of essential development tools and productivity apps for building React Native applications, including VSCode, ESLint, Prettier, RescueTime, and WakaTime.
- [Shortcuts Cheatsheet](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/shortcuts-cheatsheet.md): 3/6/2018 - A comprehensive cheatsheet of keyboard shortcuts and terminal commands for VSCode, MacOS, React Native Simulator, Chrome DevTools, and common Git workflows.
- [Workflow query creation (React Apollo)](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/workflow-query-creation-react-apollo.md): 3/6/2018 - A step-by-step workflow for creating GraphQL queries in a full-stack React Apollo application, from schema definition to client-side implementation.
- [The Multiple Personality Coder](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/as-a-full-stack-developer-its-good-to-have-multiple-personality-disorder-2.md): 2/27/2018 - A humorous exploration of different mental modes developers shift between while coding, from debugging to perfecting UI, illustrated through fictional programmer personalities.
- [Why I went to Bali and why I don’t know where I’m going next](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/why-i-went-to-bali-and-why-i-dont-know-where-im-going-next.md): 2/8/2018 - A reflection on the concept of intermittent hyper immersion shifts and how regularly changing environments accelerates personal growth and learning through challenging assumptions.
- [How I’m going to make 2018 my most impactful year yet — A clear vision, fear-setting, and a crystal clear plan.](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2018/2018-year-of-creation.md): 1/19/2018 - A personal manifesto outlining ambitious 2018 goals, using fear-setting and extreme accountability measures to build two apps while pursuing a vision of working productively in paradise.
- [Justified Dopamine](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/justified-dopamine.md): 12/27/2017 - Seeking dopamine from productive activities like work and exercise rather than quick hacks like social media, gaming, and sugar to align with long-term goals.
- [What if dopamine triggers fuck up your long-term productivity?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/what-if-dopamine-triggers-fuck-up-your-long-term-productivity.md): 12/12/2017 - An exploration of how short-term dopamine triggers like social media and food act as distractions that harm long-term productivity, arguing for eliminating these distractions rather than relying on willpower to resist them.
- [The basis: what comes after happiness?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-basis-what-comes-after-happiness.md): 11/20/2017 - Moving beyond the pursuit of happiness by understanding and mastering our impulses, creating stable habits to focus on bigger issues like the planet.
- [Routine](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/routine.md): 11/19/2017 - A detailed breakdown of a productive daily routine for solo entrepreneurs combining morning workouts, focused coding sessions, kitesurfing, and evening reflection while avoiding common pitfalls like analysis paralysis and social media distractions.
- [Is Facebook as addictive as Heroin?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/facebook-heroin.md): 10/18/2017 - A critical analysis comparing Facebook's addictive nature to heroin, examining how social media algorithms designed for user retention may be turning people into zombies with shortened attention spans and reduced real-world value.
- [My energy levels in Eat Code Kite Repeat: Being in alignment with your environment](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/be-here-now-flow-zone-alignment-energy-levels-nothing-else-matters.md): 9/28/2017 - Finding alignment with your environment to achieve flow state, balancing mental energy from coding with physical energy from kitesurfing to build an MVP.
- [EAT CODE KITE REPEAT at the NOMAD INCUBATOR in KITESURF HEAVEN: TARIFA ESPAÑA](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/eat-code-kite-repeat-nomad-incubator-kitesurf-heaven-tarifa.md): 9/19/2017 - Setting up the Nomad Incubator in Tarifa, Spain - a community for software developers and entrepreneurs who share a passion for kitesurfing and coding.
- [I don't know or I don't flow](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/i-dont-know.md): 9/12/2017 - Embracing an uncertain travel lifestyle and going with the flow instead of rigid planning, finding balance between work focus and nomadic freedom.
- [Possessions for happiness?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-laptop-of-a-nomad.md): 9/2/2017 - The relationship between possessions and freedom as a digital nomad - owning only what's necessary for work and happiness while traveling with 11 kilos.
- [About working offline](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/working-offline.md): 8/20/2017 - An experiment in setting up a complete offline development environment for React Native to enable productive programming during multi-day mountain treks in Bulgaria, demonstrating that remote work doesn't require internet.
- [What is the perfect way to study and work on the move?](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/perfect-travel.md): 8/5/2017 - A framework for working and studying while traveling, exploring the three phases of settling into a new location and how to maximize productivity through cultivating a habit of change.
- [Counterproductive behaviors of solo-entrepreneurs](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/counterproductive-behaviors-of-solo-entrepreneurs.md): 8/4/2017 - How solo entrepreneurs can maximize productivity by suppressing urges for doubt and communication, creating focused environments and turning decisions into habits.
- [Cycling through your life part III: The μCycle](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/the-mcycle.md): 7/17/2017 - A conceptual framework for personal growth through rapid iteration, creating a feedback loop that cycles through dreaming, planning, learning, creating, and sharing to accelerate learning and development.
- [Today I uninstalled WhatsApp to save 40 minutes a day](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/drop-whatsapp-save-40-minutes.md): 7/11/2017 - Uninstalling WhatsApp to save 40 minutes daily and focus on deep, goal-oriented work by separating core activities from less important distractions.
- [The Best Sustainable Travel Lifestyle: about time-effective organization](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/time-effective-travel-lifestyle.md): 7/9/2017 - How to organize a sustainable travel lifestyle while working 8 hours a day, including strategies for choosing accommodation, coworking spaces, and minimizing commute time.
- [The best apps to study and work on the move](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/some-apps-i-like.md): 6/30/2017 - Essential apps and tools for nomadic entrepreneurs, from banking and transportation to communication, productivity, and learning platforms.
- [Time management](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/time-management.md): 6/19/2017 - A framework for managing screen time and prioritizing tasks as an entrepreneur by blocking distracting websites during specific periods, applying the Pareto Principle to focus 80% of time on the most important work.
- [Notification-zombies](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/notification-zombies.md): 6/17/2017 - A critique of how notifications turn people into zombies who lose control over their attention, with statistics on smartphone usage and a recommendation to turn off all notifications to reclaim mental freedom.
- [How to diminish distractions while being nomadic](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/how-to-diminish-distractions.md): 6/11/2017 - Practical strategies to diminish distractions as a digital nomad, including blocking tools, creating habits, and maintaining focus despite constant change.
- [4 ways nomadic entrepreneurs can reduce their Carbon Footprint](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/nomadic-entrepreneurs-reduce-carbon-footprint.md): 6/11/2017 - An analysis of how nomadic entrepreneurs can reduce their carbon footprint through shared facilities, public transport, and mindful consumption, despite the high emissions from flights.
- [Jan, clean up your room!](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/about-cleaning-up.md): 5/24/2017 - A practical guide to decluttering and minimalism learned from traveling in Asia, outlining seven steps to simplify your living space and life by choosing a style, creating transparency, and focusing on experiences over possessions.
- [Effective Communication](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/effective-communication.md): 5/6/2017 - A metaphorical exploration of how people process information differently, comparing them to sheep, rocks, and fish in the river of spoken language to illustrate effective versus ineffective communication patterns.
- [The habit of Change](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/habit-of-change.md): 4/28/2017 - A philosophical reflection on why developing a habit of change is essential in our rapidly evolving world, using the metaphor of a rock in a river to illustrate how adaptability creates resilience and growth.
- [Cycling through your life: Communicate, Adapt & Get shit done](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/distractions.md): 4/24/2017 - Balancing communication, learning, and getting things done by tracking and limiting distractions from social media and browsers to improve productivity.
- [The Hawk-view every starting solo entrepreneur needs](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/hawk-view-entrepreneur-needs.md): 4/24/2017 - Lessons from working intensively on a startup about the importance of maintaining a broader perspective as a solo entrepreneur, balancing four key areas: learning, creating, networking, and sharing.
- [How to solve attention pollution and cure your love/hate relationship with your smartphone](https://blog.janwilmake.com/2017/smartphone-attention-pollution.md): 4/24/2017 - An analysis of attention pollution caused by smartphones and how internet enables distractions across all time and space, arguing that we should focus only on information that drives action here and now.