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Anthony Pica

Digital Journal

A collection of some of my writing.

Flow vs. Mosquitoes

Avoid distractions to minimize the costly, negative effect that task switching has on the brain.

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Death Ground & Deadlines

You can use Sun Tzu's death ground concept in your personal and professional life as a strategy to get stuff done.

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How to get faster email responses

Email overload is a challenge, but we can mitigate it by doing more work up front when sending a message.

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Systems thinking makes you a winner, even when you fail

Systems thinking is a mindset where you see how individual parts, including ideas and decisions, connect and affect each other. It’s part of a strategy for analyzing not only how an outcome was achieved, but more importantly why.

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Deep Work - Book Summary

Focusing intently on a single task is how you leverage your brain power to be creative and productive.

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The 5 Best Books I Read in 2018

Every year I create an overview of the best books I read. Here's 2018.

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