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How-To & Productivity
Step-by-step curation guides, from building a source list to deciding what is worth sharing, and the working habits that leave time for it.
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How to Have Fewer Meetings (and Better Ones)
Practical ways to cut meetings: write first, set a purpose and owner, shorten defaults, protect focus blocks and turn status meetings into written updates.
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Search Crate Best Practices: Keeping Your Sources Sharp
How to keep a curation source list useful over time: one topic per crate, sensible likes floors, monthly pruning, exclusions and testing each source alone.
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TED Talks for Productivity Worth Your 15 Minutes
Eight TED and TEDx talks on procrastination, focus, motivation, time and conversation, with who gave them, when, and one practical idea from each.
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How to Curate Content: A Step-by-Step Workflow
A repeatable workflow for curating content on X: define your audience, build a source list, filter, read, write your take, credit, queue and review.
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Working From Home: Habits That Keep the Work Moving
Practical habits for working from home: a defined workspace, clear start and stop times, written communication, focus blocks and avoiding the feed trap.
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Content Curation vs Content Creation: Finding the Right Balance
The difference between curating and creating content, what each does for an account, and how to choose a ratio between them that you can keep up.
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Productive Mornings: A Routine That Leaves Room for Reading
A realistic morning routine for knowledge workers: protect the first hour, read before you react, and fit curation in without losing the day to your feed.
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Content Curation Best Practices: 10 Rules for Sharing Others' Work
Ten practical rules for curating content on X and elsewhere: add your own take, credit sources, read before sharing, keep a mix and respect copyright.
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How to Build a Source List (a Crate) for Content Curation
A step-by-step guide to building a curation source list: picking accounts, sites and keywords, setting filters and turning it into X searches you'll reuse.
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What Makes Content Worth Curating? A Five-Question Test
A quick five-question test for deciding whether an article, video or thread is worth sharing with your audience, with examples of what passes and fails.
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