Work clean
"In Work Clean, Dan Charnas reveals how to apply mise-en-place outside the kitchen, in any kind of work. Culled from dozens of interviews with culinary professionals and executives, including world-renowned chefs like Thomas Keller and Alfred Portale, this essential guide offers a simple system to focus your actions and accomplish your work."--Book jacket.
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- 1. Up at 4:30AM on 95%+ of days
2. Cold brew coffee and some kind of small breakfast, maybe a cookie or something
3. Do NYT + Apple News Crosswords and some other word games
4. Some combination of watch TikTok, read on my Kindle, 20 minute workout
5. Brush teeth and leave for work between 6:30 and 7:30. Either run or bike commute.
6. At work, do a 30-minute planning session to get ready for the day.
I find it works really well for me. It’s all stuff I like to do. Sometimes I end up doing my workout after work instead of before, but other than that I’m pretty consistent. Once in a while on a weekend or holiday, I’ll do no alarm and will sleep until sometime between 5:30 and 7:30AM.
My 30-minute planning session is based on the book Work Clean by Dan Charnas. Really great way for me to prioritize and have a clear plan for what I want to accomplish on a given day. The most interesting thing I’ve found with this is that there’s some days that just feel overwhelming before I plan. And then once my plan is written down nearly everytime it’s like, “Huh, that doesn’t seem too bad.”
- > The Pomodoro is the default standard for productivity.
According to who?
> what are alternative methods to focused work and productivity?
Set aside time at the beginning of your day to make a list of the things you want to do, prioritize that list and then do them.
https://www.amazon.com/Work-Clean-life-changing-mise-en-plac...
This book helped me quite a bit.
- Fiction
- Recursion
- Red Rising (on book 2 now and I assume I'll want to re-read it)
- Ender's Game series (I've read some of them multiple times)
- The Martian (I've read multiple times)
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (series)
Non-ficton
- The Model Thinker (super dense, I'll need multiple re-reads)
- Chief Joy Officer
- Work Clean
- Outlive
- That's a great read, although I remember reading it published under the title "Work Clean". A cursory glance at Amazon.co.uk looks like the two titles have identical text however the Kindle edition of "Work Clean" is half the price of the one re-issued as "Everything In Its Place", for anyone else interested...
- There's a book by Dan Charnas called "Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind" that does a great job of explaining the system of mise en place beyond just setup and precutting vegetables. My favorite takeaway that has actually helped my organization in practice has been to leave a project/code base in a clean state after working on it. Sounds obvious but writing checklists for tests, documentation, setup for the next person, etc. has been really helpful.
https://www.amazon.com/Work-Clean-life-changing-mise-en-plac...
- Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
Charnas, D. https://www.workclean.com/
