Pillars of Productivity
Pillars of Productivity
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Gain an effortless ability to get things done without worrying whether you're working on the right thing.
Hire Tiago as your expert guide to lead you through the wilderness of endless productivity advice.
From conquering your email inbox to managing your time to taming your to-do list to effective notetaking and content consumption…
You'll gain a set of powerful tools and habits so you can start every week with the focus you need to do your best work.
What would having a system for productivity open up for you?
Whether you want to make a big vision happen, get your life together, or anything in between, with a system for productivity, you’ll be able to…
Make big promises to yourself and follow through, not because of perfect memory but because of your system, even if you have no idea yet how you’ll make it happen.
Manage multiple projects and roles you play in your life simultaneously, without having to stretch your mental and physical capacity to the breaking point.
Gain the sense of determination to make progress on multiple fronts of your life and work in parallel, without the burden of multitasking.
Have more of what you want and less of what you don’t in life, pulling your ultimate vision for your future forward in time.
Pillars of Productivity: The complete blueprint for modern, digital productivity
Think of your productivity system as a building you're constructing. There are four pillars at the corners of that building that hold it all together.
Each pillar is a software program – an app – that fulfills a critical function in modern life: a digital calendar, a task manager (or digital to-do list), a digital notetaking app, and a read-later app.
You can offload all the information coming at you (e.g., from emails and many other sources) to those four pillars and resurface it right when you need it.
The Weekly Review ties it all together. It’s your ritual to finish every week with a sense of completion, finality and fulfillment, and start the new week with clarity and purpose, not based on wishful thinking but on thoughtful preparation.
These tools are so powerful, but no one ever really taught us how to use them effectively. That’s exactly what this course is designed to do.
How our alumni describe Pillars of Productivity
What's included in Pillars of Productivity:
💻 8 lessons with comprehensive instructional videos including in-depth, hands-on demonstrations
📝 Downloadable workbook with all action steps & checklists so you can easily put what you learn into practice immediately
🤝 Access to a vibrant online community where you can get your questions answered by peers and course staff
⚒️ App recommendations and concrete guidelines to help you pick the right productivity tools
❤️ 7-day 100% money-back guarantee so you can try POP risk-free and decide if it’s right for you
📼 Access for the lifetime of the course including future updates
Answers to your Frequently Asked Questions
How much time do I need to invest to benefit from Pillars of Productivity?
We’ve designed Pillars of Productivity to fit your schedule and pace.
While you can watch the video lessons in about two and a half hours, we highly recommend that you follow the action steps to put what you learn into practice.
What’s the difference between Pillars of Productivity and Building a Second Brain?
Pillars of Productivity is focused on leveraging the essential digital tools (email, calendar, task manager, notetaking app, read-later app) that turn you into a capable, mindful professional who can handle anything life throws at them.
Building a Second Brain zooms in on the notetaking part and teaches you how to consistently turn the information you consume into creative output and concrete results, leveraging your notetaking app.
A Second Brain is your holistic ecosystem of digital tools, encompassing the material from both courses. It is a trusted place outside your head where you can collect and organize your most important ideas and insights and use them to do your best work.
Does POP work for professionals in a corporate setting, or only entrepreneurs or freelancers?
My teaching and advice is definitely influenced by my profession as an independent creator. Many of my examples are creative projects or educational products that you might not be able to relate to.
But I do believe that most of what I have to say applies equally well to corporate work, for a few reasons:
- The world of free agents (freelancers, consultants, entrepreneurs) is often just a few years ahead of large organizations, which means what we are dealing with now is coming soon to your doorstep
- An increasing percentage of the workforce is made up of independent contractors (now making up a majority of all employed people), which means that kind of career path may very well be in your future (or at least, more and more of the professionals you collaborate with will be)
- When coming up with guiding principles, it’s helpful to start with a freeform canvas with minimal rules, and then adapt from there as you add in corporate restrictions and requirements
I used most of what I teach in POP when I worked for a large company, and I use it today in the context of an international team at Forte Labs.
Will this course provide a “system” or just a group of “tips?”
This speaks to one of my beefs with many productivity courses: they just unload a grab bag of random “tips and tricks” on you, seemingly chosen at random, and leave you to sort through it all and decide what actually works. In contrast, I see my main job as curating and distilling the vast universe of productivity advice out there, into a bite-size package you can absorb in a few sittings.
And look – there are a lot of productivity tips that work in isolation. The mistake is thinking that by piling them all together, you’ll have a system. Each tip and trick adds its own mental burden, so what you really end up with is a house of cards – it holds together only until the slightest wind blows, revealing that there is no connective tissue.
Every single lesson in POP was chosen because it is necessary to the functioning of the whole. Every tactic makes all the other tactics more effective and functional. I’m not giving you a bunch of theory or good-sounding advice. I’m giving you the exact system I use every day.
How long will I have access to the material?
You’ll have access for the lifetime of the product.
What tools are used in Pillars of Productivity?
Pillars of Productivity is tool-agnostic, meaning our methodology will work in any software you prefer. The videos in the course will show you examples in different types of apps and we’ll give you concrete recommendations for free and paid tools to use in each lesson.
With that being said, you’re more than welcome to use any other tool that you feel works better for your needs.
Are there any prerequisites for this course?
There are no official prerequisites to take Pillars of Productivity. However, we do expect you to be reasonably comfortable with using a computer or smartphone.
What’s your refund policy?
Your satisfaction is our #1 goal, and we want the decision to join Pillars of Productivity to be 100% risk-free so you can focus on learning. If you decide the course didn’t deliver on its promise for any reason, email us at support@fortelabs.com within 7 days of your purchase to get a refund.
