Do these weird tricks. Or don’t. Up to you.

Unconventional Productivity Hacks for Writers, Artists and Entrepreneurs

Writing advice you haven’t heard before to up your game, do less and increase your success

Andrew Macrae
3 min readApr 26, 2020

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Procrastinate more

It boosts creativity and stops you wasting time following dead ends. Just don’t do it so much that you miss the deadline.

Inbox zero is a waste of time

There’s no reason to sort your email. Delete the junk and keep the rest. You can search for anything you want to find later.

Only ever put three things on your to-do list

Then cross off two (affiliate link).

Use social media while you’re working

Give your brain a break by checking your feed between each sentence. If you start to check it more often, it means you’re not working on the right thing.

Quality is better than quantity

Focus on quality not quantity. There’s enough dreck in the world. You don’t need to add to it.

Tools are not important

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Andrew Macrae

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