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Read past newsletters and browse the themes
that have built our digital Cave.

The Snooze Button in Our Pockets
A Cave Every Day
Rethink Legacy

Finding Flow in an Open Office Plan
Caveday is Looking for a Home
Changing Your Mind about Goals

January 2020

Calendar Hacks
Cave Squads
2019’s Reading List

Digital Kettle Corn
Cave Gifts
Congratulations John Plata

Fun at Work
Cave Squads
Turning people Away

November 2019

The Brain Snake
Team Caves
The Fastest Way to Build Trust at Work

The First Day of Kindergarten
Thursday Caves
Our Relationship to Work

 
 

Marshmallows and Delayed Gratification
Caveday at SXSW
This is Your Brain on Focus
Chaos Theory at Work

Dualism and Exercise
Your Brain’s Door
The Opposite of Efficiency

Mise-en-Place
SMARTARC Goals
When Will You Peak?

The Urgency Effect
Sheep vs Truffle Pigs
Be an Athlete

Sound vs Silence
Fishing for Lobsters
One-Track Mind

Creating Friction
The Cycle of Hunger
I’m an Elephant and So Are You

Fresh Start Days
The Power of Attention
Rituals at Work

Optimism Bias/Planning Fallacy
Ideas Are Not Lightbulbs
Navigating Our Own Odyssey

The Myth of Multitasking
Caveday Membership
Wipe The Machine Clean

Q3 2018

 
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Three Things

Recommendations From the Cave
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Reading and Learning

Personal Email (Sivers.org)

Try this Popular Japanese Morning Routine (Blog, Trello)

The High Price of Multitasking (Article, NYTimes)

8 Ways to Create Flow (Article + TED Talk, Positive Pyschology)

Work Is Like Water (Article, NYTimes)

Shake Shack is Trying out a 4 Day Work Week (Article, CNN)

The Attention Diet - (Long Article, Mark Manson)

Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Womens’ Productivity (Atlantic Article)

Utility Fallacy (Cal Newport blog post)

Keep Going (Austin Kleon Book)

The Moral Peril of Meritocracy, (NYTimes Article)

Tech is Downgrading Humans, (Wired interview Tristan Harris)

The Client is You In 2 Years

How to be Everything, Emilie Wapnick (Book)

Tiny Breaks That Reboot Your Brain, Zaria Gorvett, BBC (Article)

The Psychological Trap of Freelancing, Charlotte Cowles, The Cut (Article)


Fish (Tap Essay)

Make Time, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (Book)

The State of Work/Life Balance (Article)

Give Me Boring Or Give Me Death, Paul Jarvis (Article)

The Importance of Donuts, Lara Hogan (Article)

Why The Depth Year Was My Best Year, David Cain (Article)

50 Ways To Get A Job, Dev Aujla (Book)

Why Do We Work So Hard? (Article)

The Joy Of No Phones (Article)

 

Watching and Listening

How to Simplify Your Life (The School of Life)

Brian Koppelman with Bill Hader- ("The Moment" Podcast)

Chernobyl

G - (Podcast miniseries by Radiolab)

Jeopardy!

The Inventor (HBO) 

The Call To Courage, Brené Brown (Netflix)

Leaving Neverland (HBO Series)

Purl (Video)

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are, Amy Cuddy (TED Talk) (Note - her study has not been replicated)

Just Run, Derek Sivers (Video)

Creativity School (Podcast)

Study With Me (YouTube)

7 Days Out (Series, Netflix)

Magic Lessons, Liz Gilbert (Podcast)

Design Matters, Debbie Millman (Podcast)

 

Doing and Using

Otter

Pause (Freedom Plug-in)

Calendly (Web App)

MixMax (Web App)

Tide (Phone App)

Shift by Siempo

Home Screen as Tools (Phone Hack)

Workona (Chrome Plugin)

Phone Free First Friday

Facebook Demetricator (Plug In)

Mac Menu Bar (App List)

Tab Suspender (Chrome Plugin)

Flux, (OSX App)

Ziva Meditation (Practice + Book)

Working With A Coach

Marie Kondo for X, (App List)

Abstract (App for collaborative design)

GMass (Plug-in)

IFTTT (Site)

Rescue Time (Computer App)

Learning How To Learn - (Online Course)

Gemini (App)

Done (App)   

Subtract, Derek Sivers (Article)

iA Writer (App)

Noisli (App, website, and chrome extension)

 
Caveday Cofounder Jake Kahana

Hi! My name is Jake Kahana and I'm a cofounder of Caveday. I also write and curate these newsletters for you. I'd love to hear from you. Just send me an email at Jake@caveday.org with questions, disagreements, or to discuss anything. I promise I'll respond. Thanks for signing up!