time management

concept · in 18 sources (2020–2023)

Productivity framed as deciding what to do with, and optimising, the limited time one has.

Sources by year: 2020: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2023: 8

Also named in the threads: Ali says he is going to work on his own Skillshare classes, taking a deep dive into how he makes his videos: filming, editing and post-production. · Book Club, Ali's series of book-summary videos (2020)

Questions

• Is lack of time a real reason not to do something?
• Should you manage your time or your attention?

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

energisers and drainers (3) · Feel-Good Productivity (book) (4) · Deep Dive (3) · World of Warcraft (2) · spaced repetition (2) · active recall (2) · Instagram (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2023

• 2023-04-06 · The Pareto Principle 👩‍🌾 — recommendation: Ali says a farmer should prioritise the crops that give the biggest return; applied to business, time management and personal productivity, the Pareto principle reminds us to focus on the most important tasks. — 00:00:29
• 2023-04-19 · If I Was a Student Again, I'd Do This — Ali: When it comes to productivity and enjoyment, Ali says, it is less about time management and more about energy management: energising people give you more energy for your studies and everything else. — 00:11:39
• 2023-04-24 · How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System — Ali calls time management one of the most important skills to build today, because time is our single most valuable non-renewable resource: we can always make more money, but never more time. — 00:00:00 · also in: 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week
  • For Ali the skill of time management is making the best use of time: using it intentionally and effectively, not only for doing productive things. — 00:00:00
  • Ali presents his Trident method, a three-pronged method for time management. — 00:00:29
  • The one part of the bullet journal method that changed the game for Ali's time management was the year at a glance: the whole year on one page, 12 columns for the months and the days 1 to 31 down the side. — 00:00:58
  • The ideal ordinary week exercise forces us to decide our priorities: instead of "I don't have the time", we say "I'm choosing not to make the time". — 00:12:05
• 2023-07-31 · 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week — Ali says that what we think of as a time management problem is often an energy management problem. — 00:03:46
  • Ali thinks of time management and calendar blocking as creating the container of the day, and of energy as filling that container with what he actually wants to do. — 00:04:16
  • On days Ali sets his daily adventure and side quests his time management is supercharged; when he rushes into something without ten minutes over a coffee to think, he squanders his time. — 00:08:10
• 2023-11-24 · 7 Mistakes Students Make Every Year — recommendation: Ali: Learning simple time-management and productivity strategies leaves a student far more spare time, Ali says, which they can enjoy but also use to learn skills that will fit anything they want to do later. — 00:08:21
• 2023-11-28 · If I Wanted to Grow An Audience in 2026, I'd Do This — Ali says time management only gets you so far: you cannot time-manage your way to two YouTube videos a week alongside a full-time job, family and life; you have to build systems and tools. — 00:07:52
• …and 1 statement more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

Also named in: My Productive Phone Setup

2022

• 2022-01-07 · 15 Books To Read to Change Your Life — Oliver Burkeman (quoted): Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks takes a philosophical approach to time management: life is finite, so how we choose to use our small time on earth really matters. — 00:00:29
• 2022-05-18 · Life Is 4,000 Weeks. You’re Already Burning Through Them. — Ali: The more we chop the day into measurable blocks, Ali says, the more time feels like a conveyor belt of jars we must fill efficiently to make the most of life. — 00:00:58
  • Most time-management gurus say you can fit everything in with the perfect system, Ali says; Oliver Burkeman, in his book and on Ali's Deep Dive podcast, had big problems with that thinking. — 00:02:26
  • Oliver Burkeman says the typical time-management book implies you can get everything important done if sufficiently optimised, but we genuinely do not have time for all the things that matter. — 00:02:55
• 2022-08-02 · 5 Mistakes Procrastinators Make (And How To Avoid Them...) — Ali's first mistake of procrastinators is confusing fake procrastination with real: you only procrastinate on something, such as starting a YouTube channel, if you physically have the time for it and want to do it; otherwise it is prioritisation. — 00:00:25
• 2022-08-19 · How I Manage My Time - The System That Changed My Life — Ali says his trouble with time management is not a lack of time, since he could make the time, but a lack of energy. — 00:00:29
  • Ali calls Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It the most philosophical take on time management and productivity he has read in recent years. — 00:15:47
• 2022-10-08 · How To Manage Your Time As A Student — Ali remembers no time spent studying but does remember moments with friends, and thinks productivity and time management should not come at the expense of friendships and relationships. — 00:09:51
• 2022-11-17 · How to Become a Digital Nomad — recommendation: Ali: Building freelance work beside a job, harder still with kids, is not an easy path, Ali says: it requires managing your time and energy appropriately. — 00:16:21
• 2022-11-24 · 12 Productivity Myths Wasting Your Time — Ali says that whenever he tells himself he does not have time, he is lying to himself and taking autonomy, control and power away from himself. — 00:07:56
• …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2021

• 2021-04-18 · How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips — Ali says we are always in control of our own time, even with a boss or parents: if you do not have time for something, it is just not a priority, which is fine, but lack of time is not the real reason. — 00:01:01
  • Ali has three Skillshare classes on productivity and time management: one on the fundamentals of productivity, one on his productivity equation, and a third, on productivity for creators with a side hustle, released the week before (April 2021). — 00:10:48

Also named in: 6 Time Management Tips in Under 60 Seconds #Shorts

2020

• 2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: Productivity has historically been about time management, Ali says, and has recently moved towards attention management: the idea that what we have in limited supply is attention rather than time. — 00:15:51
  • With a full-time job Ali is very much in the time-management camp, since his time is physically limited and attention is not; as a full-time creator with much more time, he says it would become attention management. — 00:16:24