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Piers Steel's Procrastination Equation is a reasonably effective method of tackling procrastination. Here's a summary of the equation.
From Gary Klein's book The Power of Intuition comes a useful overview of dealing with uncertainty.
Notes on augmenting ‘Get Things Done’ time management with a three-tiered model of personal review.
A summary of everything a practitioner needs to know about memory retention when learning, in the pursuit of building career moats.
The rise of the knowledge worker is probably linked to the rise of meditation and mindfulness. When you are paid for your thinking, it pays to have your thinking be the best it can possibly be.
If it's possible to do so, it might be worth it to create a portfolio of mutually-reinforcing career activities. Productivity writer Tiago Forte argues that to do this, consider the point of diminishing returns for each activity, and allocate accordingly.
Some minor housekeeping, related to Commonplace's three principles.
April Dunford's book on product positioning is awesome, and has some overlap with those of us who are interested in positioning an individual career.
Can we take ideas from finance and apply them to the rest of our lives? I've been acting as it is. The truth isn't that simple.
How do you evaluate if a career activity is worth doing? By looking at its component tasks, and calculating the information rate of each step.