time-management

Why smart people spend their whole lives planning (and how to break free)

Preparation is not progress.

Sep 12 • Álvaro García

Why email is killing your focus (and how to fix it)

5 techniques to overcome chronic distraction

Sep 4 • Álvaro García

How to use your mornings like the most productive 1%

Distilling Books - Number 36

Jul 24 • Álvaro García

Inside Neil Gaiman's routine: The routine of the most prolific writer of the 21st century

Notes on gigants - Number 63

Jun 24 • Álvaro García

How I stopped treating rest as a reward

and I began to see it as the foundation of everything else

Jun 22 • Álvaro García

First things first. Then the world.

Notes on gigants - Number 56

May 23 • Álvaro García

Victor Hugo’s Strange Technique to Stop Procrastinating and Write

Notes on gigants - Number 55

May 19 • Álvaro García

You don't need more hours, you need better hours

Notas on gigants - Number 48

Apr 21 • Álvaro García

The garden rule: how to organize your life when you have too many interests

Why you need to give up some things so that others can flourish

Mar 16 • Álvaro García

Why are we becoming increasingly lonely?

Everyone is online and the parks are empty

Dec 22, 2025 • Álvaro García

The art of saying "no"

How to defend your time without feeling guilty (or looking bad)

Dec 2, 2025 • Álvaro García

Bonfire Effect: Being exhausted without having taken a single step forward

You don't get tired of working, you're tired of not making progress

Nov 22, 2025 • Álvaro García

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