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110 Stories To Learn About Time Management

by Learn RepoSeptember 18th, 2023

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Learn everything you need to know about Time Management via these 110 free HackerNoon stories.

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Let's learn about Time Management via these 110 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

Time is the one thing in life that you can never get back. Once it's gone, it's gone forever. In today's fast-paced world, even though it seems like we're working 24/7, are we really making the best use of our time?

1. Work Culture Toxicity In Tech Field

I have a confession to make: I was on Twitter over the winter holidays when I should have been spending time with my family. What was the trending topic that caught my eye, you might ask? Last minute Christmas gift ideas? Pictures of pets in Santa hats? No, but I wish I could say it was one of those things. Instead, it was about work culture toxicity in tech.

2. How Startups Can Increase Profitability & Productivity Through Time Tracking

Have you ever wondered how time tracking can invest in your growth and raise the bar of your profitability? Investing every inch of a cent into production has always been crucial for the survival of thriving startups.

3. How Time Tracking is Reshaping the Future of Work

If you are running a business or just started your own startup, it’s important you keep an eye out on every minute detail. In case you are hiring designers, software developers, and/or a team for project management, tracking total working hours is probably what you should be doing.

4. What you Need to Know About Time Estimation in Software Development

Time estimation is an important skill for software developers, a nightmare for project managers, and just as opaque for customers. Why such a situation? Let's take a look!

5. Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity in 2021 (Part 2)

Another ten productivity tips for programmers to help improve workflow and efficiency in 2021.

6. Summarizing Youtube Videos and News/Blog articles

I made a new app/service that lets users summarize the deluge of info that comes our way every day. Its unambiguously named MakeMySummary.

7. 5 Web Dev Tools To Improve Your Productivity

Time is always a scarce resource for developers. From aggressive deadlines, to multiple projects, to unexpected requirements, our time is constantly in demand. That's why we're always on the lookout for tools and processes that help us boost productivity. In this article, we'll look at five web development tools that might just give you that extra boost in productivity you need.

8. 5 Tips and Tricks I Use To Code 3 Times Faster

Here are my 5 tips and trick I use to code 3 times faster. Find out how you can start earning more money and save your precious time.

9. Unpopular Opinion: 10 Ways Asana Lowers your Productivity

Abhor online project management tools? They are an unrelenting aspect of remote work. Meet Slack, Asana, and WhatsApp, the three horsemen of the WFHpocalypse.

10. On Productivity Tools And Time Management With Julien Quintard, Founder Of Routine

An interview with Julien Quintard on why he is building Routine and why productivity tools as we know it is going to change drastically in the a few quarters.

11. Market Scenarios: Bitcoin Could Reach $25,000 Soon

Travel is one of the most critical aspects of the global economy. The international community and global economy were built on the ability of people to move from place to place and access lands unknown. It is part of what makes the world what it is today.

12. Discover the Truth About Time Management

When you’re in a serious discussion with people who are beside you, make sure you turn off your cell phone.

13. Productivity Guide: How to Be Less Busy and More Effective

In our hectic modern world, we believe that rushing from one task to the next and managing multiple priorities shows everyone that we are productive.

14. How to Plan Your Day: 5 Effective Rules for Scheduling Tasks

Today I will tell you what principles to follow when planning your day. I use these practices myself and it helped to significantly reduce the level of daily stress. I also want to note that I adhere to these rules not only at work, but also in life, and I plan my everyday activities in the same way.

15. You Don't Know What You're Spending Your Time On Unless You Start Tracking It

Think you know how you’re spending time? I’m not sure. Do you often panic if you haven’t finished a task on time or just don’t have enough energy left?

16. 4 Tips on How to Incorporate Deep Work in Your Daily Routine

In a world, the ability to perform deep work is the most valuable skill in the 21st century, and here’s how you can apply it in your day-to-day routine.

17. Side Projects: Yay or Nay?

I love to build stuff online, but do I have too many side projects?

18. 15 Best Project Management Tools

Project management systems are supposed to make the life of teams easier and the work process faster and more efficient.

19. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 - Table of Links

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

20. The Topology of Time

The concept of time is viewed from a philosophical and scientific point of view.

21. Optimizing Your Bookmark Bar for Distraction-Free Work

A simple hack on your browser that can get you more focused and keep you out of web browsing rabbit holes.

22. A Call To Action: Let's Not Waste The Opportunity Coronavirus Offers Us

Half of the world is in quarantine due to the corona-virus outbreak, and most of the people have no clue how to use this time for developing new skills.

23. Remote Work, Different Timezones, and Bear Chronotypes

In 9 to 5 office jobs, most meetings are scheduled mid-morning, which is the most productive time for Bears, effectively reducing peak performance time by half.

24. Build a Second Brain and Conquer Your Cluttered Mind

Are we drowning in the chaos of too many thoughts and ideas? It seems as though our minds are constantly cluttered. How can we function regardless?

25. Working in a Company Just Isn't for Me

I respect the various reasons people pursuing a career, but I'm clearly wired for something else and will exhaust all options before I go there.

26. Code Faster: 12 VS Code Shortcuts

Here are 12 VS code shortcuts to help code faster.

27. How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 - Table of Links

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

28. 7 Strategies for Maximum Productivity

You are reading this because of one of two reasons. Either you want to be more productive, or you are looking for all that time that you lose during the day. You woke up early, worked all day and it still seems that your code or project did not move anywhere.

29. 5 Tips To Help Your Employee Manage Their Work Effectively

"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients and your business." – Richard Branson

30. Fixing The Parkison's Effect: How Freelance Writers can meet up with Schedule

Parkinson’s Effect is all about an overlooked barrier to efficient time management summarised as; every task takes exactly the amount of time you devote to it.

31. Daily Standup Meeting Is Wasting Your Time

Here is how I saved my team 2200 hours annually not to do it.

32. 5 Best Collaboration Platforms for Developers

The most effective way to maximize the productivity of your development team is to use collaboration tools. Software developers these days are not expected to work full-time without even contacting or communicating with each other for long. If there is no collaboration among the workers, your million-dollar worth of a product cannot sustain since it’s been developed in a communication-restrictive environment.

33. Problem Solving in Software Development: Specialization Vs. Generalization

What types of issues should you really spend your time on in software development - specialized or generalized?

34. Renovation Management Tips to Keep Your Project on Schedule

Renovation projects have a lot of moving parts that must work simultaneously. No wonder, large projects take 20% longer to finish than scheduled and are 80% over budget. From planning to budgeting to hiring to the actual remodeling, all processes have to be coordinated for the whole project to be completed.

35. 5 New AI Tools That Can Help You To Be More Productive

How much of your productive time is taken away by all those meaningless news, stories and activities? Especially if you are a high performing executive or professional, how productive would you be if you weren’t distracted? We lose a lot of time on the activities that seem to be crucially important, while they are not. Although social media and numerous web-based communication platforms have definitely made communication a much less bothersome task, it is simply mind boggling to realize just how much of our time is spent on social media.

36. How to Track the Time and Expenses of Your Nonprofit

If you run a nonprofit, you're no stranger to the idea of wearing many hats at your organization.

37. How to Stop the Meeting Madness When You Have Too Many Work Meetings

Work meetings are an obvious necessity for many reasons. However, these meetings can become overly frequent and pointless. How then can they be optimized?

38. How to Optimize Your Remote Workforce Using Big Data Analytics

Optimizing your remote workforce can easily be done using the help of big data analytics, as it can easily point towards time management issues and overwork.

39. Time Blocking 101

Efficient work is not about working hard, but about being smart with our time. Time is our ultimate non-regenerable resource. Let’s spend it wisely.

40. 4 Calendar Techniques To Boost Your Productivity

Here are four techniques that can help your reclaim your control over your time: Time Blocking, Color-Coding, Batching, and Calendar Audits.

41. We Never Shall Have Any More Time

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

42. A developer’s tale of deadlines and fantasy time estimates

You were asked to write a program, and during the discovery phase of the discussions were asked how long it was going to take. The spotlight was on you as everyone turned to face you. On their faces you could see the real question they were asking… How long are you going to set us behind our actual target? Cause let’s face it, that is what they really want to know. How long do they have to wait before they can use and advertise that new feature to the market.

43. Top 16 Tips to Quickly Boost Your Productivity in 2021

These simple, easy-to-follow productivity tips will improve your output dramatically.

44. How Developers Should Invest Their Time

In today’s, in the past and probably in the future world — the time is more valuable than money, and the right time waits for no one. Hence, we have to make the most out of it to succeed in life.

45. 4 Productivity Hacks That Yield Quick Results

Having trouble hitting deadlines and staying focused? Well, have no fear! This article will introduce four productivity hacks that almost anyone can implement immediately and see fast results.

46. 8 Efficient Ways to Monitor Employee Productivity

Monitoring employees’ productivity is a key to success at any company, be it a startup or a huge enterprise. CEOs and HR Managers know how important employee tracking is. Some modern technology and classic proven methods will help you keep an eye on employees’ activity. Here’s the list of the best ways to keep track of your team’s productivity.

47. Bugs, Cruft, and Other Spooky Code-stuffs

Gather 'round the campfire, and let me tell you a scary story, one that you might already know from the bones. But, when added to the flesh and sinew of raw detail, you might find yourself sweating, thinking of an all-too-familiar codebase...

48. How To Be More Productive with Pomodoro Technique and Google Calendar

I devised a few ways to keep track of my time and to maintain focus during the “new-normal” (as they say) WFH days . Thought maybe it might be useful

49. How To Improve Your Concentration and Focus

The World is full of distractions, the more you try to ignore a string of distractions the more you find yourself tangled in those strings of distraction. We are never taught how to manage our time nor our finance. It is the thing that we have to manage or learn on our own. The truth is people actually never learn to manage their time. They just do things whatever they have or according to their priorities. But within these priorities, people tend to get lost in their thoughts, urges, or fictional societies. In between these priorities, it’s really complicated to stay focused and do things. We easily get lost and get distracted. Staying focused for a longer time is tough for your brain. Especially when you are doing intensive work or in short the thing that releases a few dopamines.

50. How I Manage My Team So The Business Can Thrive

Managing Guidance From The Diary of an Amateur (not anymore) CEO Who Runs a Six Million Revenue BusinessWhy invent the wheel when someone has already invented a bicycle? Whether in business or any other category, learning from others’ experiences increases your chances of success along with saving you time, resources, and money.

51. Conquer Work With The "One Channel" Method

Tom works in the estimating department of a mid-sized plumbing contractor. As he walks in the door Tuesday morning, he gets hit with the following:

52. My 12 Best Short Productivity Tips

My best short productivity tips to achieve your goals and avoid procrastination

53. Improving Focus and Productivity Using the Pomodoro Technique

Have you ever gotten to the end of your day and while you've completed tasks, you don't feel you accomplished what you set out to do? Are you're working hard at a list of tasks that you're trying to finish but you're not able to give 100%? Do you have no idea where time has gone and you have nothing to showcase your work? Do you procrastinate? Do you lose time in your day scrolling social media feeds, your inbox or YouTube? There may be a solution that could help you. The Pomodoro Technique and it could transform your life.

54. "Time is the Great Equaliser" Meet the Writer Andrei Rotariu AKA Crypto Fireside

Meet the founder of Crypto Fireside! In this installment of Meet the Writer series Andrei Rotariu talks about crypto and the true value of time management.

55. [Top 3] Time Management Habits of Highly Productive Distributed Teams

The traditional work model, 9 to 5 in an office with the whole company face to face, is going the way of the dodo bird. For a number of businesses thriving in the 21st century, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

56. 5 Ways to Track and Optimize Your Team's Time

Why is time management important in a team?

57. Accomplish More by Doing Less with Not-To-Do Lists This Year

To-do lists are so last year. Increase your willpower and protect your brain from The Zeigarnik Effect with these personal productivity tips.

58. 5 Tricks To Get Better At Coding

Coding is hard! As time passed, I improved my skills and learned some tricks that made me better at coding!

59. 22 Simple Ways to Learn Faster

I know how it feels.

60. The Only Productivity Method You'll Ever Need Is 'Getting Things Done'

Over the years I’ve tried different methods or adapted existing ones to make the most of my working time, but each new technique reminds me of the GTD method.

61. Launching Your Own Startup? Make These Mistakes for Too Long And... Bammm!

tl;dr In this game of startups; some win, some lose.

62. Become More Productive As A Developer With These Amazing VS Code Extensions

How can developers be extra productive? You’re a developer or you manage a team of developers, higher productivity can get you extra things done through ...

63. Use These 11 Meta-Skills to Accelerate Your Career

Zain Kahn goes over 11 meta-skills to accelerate your career. ``

64. A Guide to Practicing Self Care for Managers

Management is a tricky job. You are required to care for other people and their growth while also feeling responsible for their emotional and mental well-being.

65. How Successful Managers Delegate Work Effectively

If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, right? The perfectionist in you likes to be in control and is good at finding excuses - “Outcome won’t be as good.” “It will take me longer to assign and explain than to do it myself.” “I don’t have anyone with the right skills.” “No one in the team wants to do it anyway.”

66. Making the Leap to Solopreneur

It was a big, scary decision to make—going from a conventional 9-to-5 desk job working in operations of a small company, to launching my own digital business where I work as a content manager and writer.

67. Tennis and the Immortal Soul

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

68. Examine the Budget of the Day’s Time

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

69. How to Find the Right Online Time Clock for Construction Businesses

Every year in the United States,construction spending goes up. Is your business ready for these increased costs? As your schedule continues to fill up, you'll need to focus on growing your business as opposed to managing day-to-day tasks, especially if some of these daily tasks can be automated.

70. NFX's Gigi Levy-Weiss Talks About Startup Speed, Time Management Tips and Developing a Laser Focus

Every entrepreneur knows that speed is key to a startup’s success.

71. An Interview With Ian Sanders: Entrepreneurship, Being a Leader, and More

On today’s episode of Startups On Demand, I am joined by Ian Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Cape, a stealth startup in the field of healthcare analytics.

72. The Desire to Exceed One’s Programme

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

73. How To Work Smarter With Parkinson’s Law

Parkinson’s law says that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Work complicates to fill available time, but if you wait until the last mi

74. The Cause of the Troubles

How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, August 2000 by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

75. Time Management or Customer Value: What Comes First to Startups?

Think of a startup as a plane that is flying from New York to Los Angeles. After 6.5 long hours of flying across the states, this plane will have to land. At this point, there are two outcomes:

76. Nir Eyal Discusses Becoming 'Indistractable,' Time Management, Focus and ChatGPT

The emergence of ChatGPT has stirred major buzz around the world and massive disruptions across multiple industries.

77. Project Management Mastery: 3 Tips for The Well Rounded Developer

As a developer, you need to do more than ship code: you must deliver consistently, on time, and keep people updated. Check out these 3 project management tips.

78. Remember Human Nature

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter VI: Remember Human Nature

79. Cerebral Seduction: How To Stop Flirting With New Ideas

Tired of chasing shiny ideas? Commit. Ditch conventional advice and embrace your weird*ss self to start actually doing things.

80. Cut Out the Fat of Your Device: Why You Should Adopt Intermittent Phone Fasting

Exploring the reasons why fasting from technology (limiting its use to periods of time in the day) can improve your productivity and overall quality of life.

81. Encourage your employees to submit a timesheet for increased productivity

Filling in and submit timesheets are tedious. Today there are timeless software and tools that capture all employee activities.

82. This Secret Method Will Help You Become More Effective At Work

The 50/10 method is simple. It says work for fifty minutes; rest for ten minutes.

83. 3 Things That You Should Do Before Even Trying to Be Productive

Before you find the perfect productivity techniques, stop doing these simple things first.

84. Best Practices for Accurate Time Tracking in 2020

At first glance, tracking employee time seems pretty straightforward. Your employees simply denote the hours they were at work on a timesheet, or punch a time clock and turn their time cards in at the end of the week or month. What could go wrong?

85. How To Become A Productive And Thriving Professional: 5 Ways To Master Time Management

Time management does not mean managing time, rather it means managing yourself. Well, we have a 24 hours time span every day, but how we will use the time depends entirely on us. Time management can help you to use the time precisely and handle your work within your assigned time. You need to plan the work first, then track and manage your work.

86. 7 Challenges to a Remote Work Economy and How to Deal with Them

Remote work is not something new that has surfaced in recent times. But With the COVID-19 pandemic – It has become much more relevant and necessary to the global workforce eyeing for revival.

87. Effective Time-Saving Advice for Small Businesses

An increase in productivity will almost always translate to an increase in revenue for the organization. These tips can help your business save time.

88. Tips To Supercharge Your Productivity As A Developer

I gave a talk about this topic a couple of months ago at forloop Summit Lagos, Nigeria. I decided to write a blog post out of it so here it goes.

89. Simple Advice on How To Complete That Never Ending Task

Faced with a mind numbing, insurmountable challenge, you stare at your screen, thinking of all the hours that are about to slip by you as you chip away at the never ending task you’ve been set.

90. Getting Into a Flow State and Bringing Your A-Game

The flow state: A state of hyperfocus where you perform at an amazing level. Read about our different approaches to getting into this wellspring of focus.

91. In Lockdown? Here's how to kill your time in times of Covid Crises?

In the event when Corona virus caused great disruption in the whole world, and people are compelled to stay at home, many people are also falling prone to mental illness like depression and anxiety.

92. How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Preface

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

93. What Being an Army Ranger Taught Me About Being a Project Manager

The leadership I’ve learned through life could be summed up and put on the front of a t-shirt, “95% of the leadership skills I learned, I learned in the Army.” If that saying isn't already a thing: ™️. Though I left the U.S. Army a little over 20 years ago, I still stand by that statement.

94. Using AI To Enhance Your Calendar And Other Productivity Hacks & Tools for Manager

Here are a few tools that help make your Google Calendar work a little harder for you! These tools use AI tech to enhance the value you get from your Calendar.

95. Dangers to Avoid for the Sincere Aspirant Towards Life

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter XII: Dangers to Avoid

96. How to Get Your Mind in Hand

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. Chapter VII: Controlling the Mind

97. How and Why Makers Should Set a Deadline They Can't Extend

Hi, makers:)

98. Detailed PMO Time Management Guide: Practical Productivity Hacks

This is a short guide from the Head of Project Management at Techstack, detailing practical steps for managing your time effectively.

99. How To Actually Get Things Done

A few tips on how to stop wasting time and be more productive.

100. The Building Blocks of Working Day

The story depicts an approach to make a working day of a knowledge worker humane and split it into flexible parts, allowing one to work with urgent and long-ter

101. 7 Soft Skills You Need for 2023 and How to Develop Them

This post will share seven soft skills programmers can develop to position them for greater success in the new year.

102. Top 5 Tips That Will Help You Succeed In Remote Sales Through Video Meetings

Working as a salesperson has gotten pretty difficult – especially this year. Many have had to stay home, use video conferencing platforms, and making video calls to engage with prospects.

103. Asynchronous Communications Can Help Reclaim Lost Time

Have you ever felt like having done nothing after a full day of work? Do you find yourself going away from the office so you can finally get things done? Good news: you’re not alone. Bad news: this may be linked to how you communicate at work!

104. JOMO Will Increase Your Productivity by x97

Jomo is the opposite of FOMO. And FOMO is a pandemic right now. In this article, we will give tips to enjoy JOMO.

105. A Guide to Improving Your Focus

How The One Thing Philosophy can help you to concentrate on the right things, improve your focus and really get things done at the end of the day.

106. I've been waking up earlier for a year now—can highly recommend

I’ve been living in Montréal for almost two years now. I’m currently going in vacation in France to see friends and family, for the fifth time in these two years. Montréal is not that far from France. You take off on the evening, and you arrive early on the morning. (Short night though.) For the return it’s even shorter: you land only a couple hours after taking off, thanks to the time shift.