Deciding where to live is one of the most important decisions in your life, and it can make a difference in your happiness and life satisfaction levels. Lifestyle-centered career planning suggests choosing your career based on the lifestyle you intend to have, which requires accumulating career capital.

Working on many projects at a time can feel overwhelming. Project-focused productivity is the principle of focusing on making progress on projects, rather than getting lost in tasks. One project at a time, one day at a time.

This is one of the existential conundrums of time management and life itself: how might we discern what’s truly important from what’s “seemingly important” (urgent) in the short term? Drawing from the organizational philosophies of Basecamp, this post explores the possible root causes of the urgency trap.