PRODUCTIVITY

I wear the same clothes every day so that I can focus on building the best products and services.

Never mistake movement for progress. Busyness is the enemy of building.

Eat that frog. Do the hardest, most important thing first every morning.

We sell the reduction of information overload, the relief from stress, and the ability to work more effectively.

The future of work isn't more tools. It's fewer tools that do more.

I was using Asana, Trello, Basecamp, and Google Docs at the same time. I was managing tools instead of managing work. That's broken.

The best sales tool is the one that saves you time. If I can find a verified phone number in 3 seconds instead of 30 minutes, that's 10x more calls per day.

I left Facebook because I realized the biggest impact I could have wasn't building a social network. It was helping teams actually get work done.

Work about work — the status meetings, the email chains, the "who's doing what" conversations — eats up 60% of people's time. We want to kill that.

The average employee spends 3.6 hours per day looking for information. That's not a productivity problem. That's a search problem. And search is what I know.

We were at Wix together. Eran and I saw the same thing: teams were drowning in tools and none of them talked to each other. We built Monday to be the one tool that replaces ten.

Multitasking is a lie. It is not even a real thing. Your brain cannot do two cognitive tasks at once. It just switches between them and does both poorly. I wrote an entire book about this.

What is the ONE thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? That question changed my life and it has changed the lives of millions of people who read the book.

The best meeting is the one that never happens. Record a 3-minute Loom instead. You get your point across, they watch it when it suits them, and nobody had to block 30 minutes on a calendar.

I wake up at 4 AM every day. Not because I have to — because I want to. The world is quietest at 4 AM, and that's when the best thinking happens.

Productivity is not about doing more things. It is about doing the right things and actually enjoying the process.

Asana exists because the way people work together is broken. We spend more time coordinating work than doing work. That is insane.

Sleep your way to the top. Literally.

Technology is not a nice-to-have in mining anymore. It is the only sustainable source of productivity improvement we have left.

This is not altruistic. This is good business.