Jason Crawford of Roots of Progress: My Favorite Books, Tools, Habits, and More | 20 Minute Playbook

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“I would say the single most powerful technique that I have found is when you start your day, rather than checking email or or anything, start by pulling out a blank sheet of paper, whether that's literal paper or whether, like me, you use an electronic note-taking system, and just think on paper about your day. How's it going? What's up? What am I going to do today? What are my priorities and so forth?” – Jason Crawford

Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) is Founder and CEO of The Roots of Progress, a nonprofit dedicated to establishing a new philosophy of progress for the 21st century. He created Progress Studies for Young Scholars and is a technical consultant and adviser to Our World in Data. He previously co-founded Fieldbook and Kima Labs, and was an engineering manager at Flexport, Amazon and Groupon.

To hear Jason Crawford's full interview on progress studies, click here.

For more, explore the transcript of this episode. 

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Chapters

• 00:00:00 – Introduction
• 00:01:24 – Research on the Gutenberg press
• 00:03:51 – Learning, planning the day, and improving sleep
• 00:10:09 – Recommended apps, including Bear, Readwise, and Anki
• 00:12:27 – Startup failures, sci-fi books, and success on your own terms

Links

• Johannes Gutenberg
• Paul Graham - Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
• Jean Moroney - Thinking Directions
• f.lux
• Bear App
• Readwise
• Kindle
• Anki
• Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

Books Recommended by Jason Crawford

• The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson‍
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline