Productivity Systems — Build Your Personal Operating System
Use AI, notes, and workflows to design a personal operating system that keeps up with the work you actually want to do.
Productivity is not about working more — it is about working on the right things at the right time with the right tools. This guide is about the system, not the hacks.
Latest Articles
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Visual power in the AI era: three basic skills to make images visible at a glance
What is truly scarce in the era of AI drawing is not tools, but visual judgment. The three basic skills - removing clutter, retaining space, and establishing a unique focus - determine whether your image can be seen and remembered, and also determine whether your Prompt can allow AI to produce commercially usable material.
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The era of "empathy marketing" is coming: when brands become consumers' AI personal consultants
An LLM knowledge base post by Andrej Karpathy foreshadows a new marketing situation in 2026: consumers have their own AI coaches, and the traditional loudspeaker becomes ineffective. For brands to be invited into these private estates, they no longer rely on precise placement, but on frequency matching of "vibe" - this battle for time sovereignty will rewrite the relationship between brands and users.
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Use Vibe Coding to build a personal website from scratch: writers can also launch their own digital facade on weekends
When I was working on this website, I realized that what had stuck me for so many years was not technology, but mentality. Vibe Coding in the AI era has changed this thing - you don't need to learn grammar, you just need to learn to explain the picture in your mind clearly. This article shares my own experience along the way, as a reference for fellow writers who also cannot write programs but want a website that truly belongs to them.
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Read "Hao Hui Reading" from the perspective of the book club host: Turn the books you have read into a part of your life
I have known Hao Hsu-lieh for several years. He is gentle, elegant and bookish. After reading his book "Hao Hui Reading", I sincerely recommend it from the perspective of a person who has organized reading clubs for many years - "Four-One Reading Method" (a story about a book, a sentence about a book, a story about me, a sentence about me) solves the most difficult thing about reading: how to make knowledge really stay and become your point of view, your judgment, and your wisdom in life.
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Re-read "Sun Yun-suan Biography": The man who used the spirit of an engineer to lift Taiwan up
When the first edition of "Sun Yun-suan Biography" was released in 1989, I immediately bought a copy and read it at home. Re-reading it more than thirty years later, I am still moved by Mr. Sun’s engineering spirit. In this era where the AI wave is sweeping everything, we actually need this kind of pragmatism, focus, and the spirit of solving problems for the country more than ever.
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Accurate data narrative: Make reports sell for money, the most scarce business translation power in the AI era
Originally published in Economic Daily. Today, as AI and automation tools become more and more powerful, people who can write SQL and pull data are no longer rare. What is scarce are people who can tell business stories with data. This article breaks down the three core capabilities and three implementation actions of accurate data storytelling (Data Storytelling), so that reports no longer lie on the dashboard sleeping, but become business logic that persuades senior executives and customers...
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the single highest-leverage productivity habit?
A weekly review. 30 minutes every Friday or Sunday to look at what you finished, what slipped, and what matters next week. Everything else is downstream of this habit.
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Which note-taking app should I use?
Whichever one you will actually use for 12 months. Stop migrating. The best app is the boring app you stop thinking about.
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How do I stop getting distracted?
Remove distractions from the environment, do not rely on willpower. Airplane mode, site blockers, close the inbox. Design around human nature, not against it.
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Should I time-block my calendar?
Yes — but loosely. Block protected time for deep work, leave buffer for the unexpected. Rigid calendars break on contact with reality.
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