Work Marathon: 96 hours of focused work
Ship a major project in 4 days alongside terrific people.
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Ship a major project in 4 days alongside terrific people.
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Love the Ultraworking team and their approach to maximizing productivity. I'm a believer!
Pros:Ultraworking helps me do my very best work. Energizing to connect with similarly motivated professionals to get stuff done.
Cons:Bring your A-Game or you'll miss out on a lot of the gains.
Work Cycles has been the single biggest jump in my personal productivity since GTD and task managers. I have recommended it to dozens of friends and would highly recommend you as well to check it out. 100% satisfaction so far. Big thanks to everybody at Ultraworking!
Pros:Enjoy work more, get more done, learn cool things
Cons:none
Highly recommend to at least trying this out. Even 1-3 work sessions is more than enough to pay for itself a few times over if you focus on high ROI work.
Pros:Major level up your ability to get things done. This turns what used to be usual plain work sessions into hyper focused sprints.
Cons:If you consider getting more work done in less time a bad thing, then this is pretty much as bad as it gets.
I know you. You're brilliant. You've been recognized by your peers. They think you're a genius. You love tools. That's why you're on this website. But you know the truth. You are a mess.
You use planning as a substitute for doing. You fiddle endlessly with systems and tools. You've Pomodoro'd. You've inbox-zero'd. You've GTD'd. You've read Seven Habits. And it all helped. A little. Then you decided to start tinkering with your systems again.
You are surprised that you get anything done yourself. It's probably because your mind goes everywhere. That's your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness. If you knew how to harness that, you'd be unstoppable.
But you don't. So you're screwing around on Product Hunt. Or Reddit. Or whatever the mental poison of the week is.
Somewhere out there, somebody has this figured out.
They're teaching your contemporaries.
And you should be scared to death.
Those guys are going to figure out how to get stuff done. They're going to figure out how to tap into their natural brilliance, and get organized. They're the ones signing up for this thing. They're the ones who are going to weekend lectures on how to define their work better. They're the ones reading the thesis of a neuroscientist on how we store memories. They're the ones building little spreadsheets about how they use their time after reading about Forensic Time Accounting. They're the ones putting in a lot of mental reps when they're flexing their mental muscle.
But honestly, that's a hell of a lot of hard work. And hard work sounds . . . hard.
So, you switch back into Red Dead Redemption 2. You log back into Reddit to moan about Bethesda's Duffle Kerfuffle. Because you're not the kind of person who wants to get stuff done. You're the kind of person who is waiting for Universal Basic Income and a Buy-N-Large Wall-E future. And as your competition, that's just fine with me.
Pros:Work cycles teaches you to define your work clearly and get it done. You'll hit record productivity and your teeth with go two shades whiter
Cons:You'll become a pedant about getting clear on tasks before starting them. You'll be unbearable to ineffective coworkers. That's ok. You win.