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Don’t let things fall through the cracks, and if you commit to doing something by a certain time, hit the deadline, or explain why you need to shift it.

A good production process… should minimize both ambiguity about what’s going on and the amount of unscheduled communication required to accomplish the work.

A key idea driving agile project management is that humans are naturally pretty good at planning.

There is a limit to how many [task] boards you can manage before the upkeep becomes too arduous.

Individual task boards can significantly improve the quality of your life as a knowledge worker, but only if invest sufficient time in their upkeep.

Short, structured check-ins can be empowering.

You must… become accountable for what you produce if you want the freedom to improve how you do so.

Most knowledge workers are so entangled in obligations and commitments and legacy methods of getting things done that there’s often no easy way to reduce this load in one bold move.

…we have the potential to make these [knowledge work] efforts not only massively more productive, but also massively more fulfilling and sustainable.

Dreams and aspirations are good things… But investing time and energy to motivate ourselves – or other people – toward an abstraction is the wrong move.