I'm a nerd re: productivity systems, so here's a thread of some books and things that helped me this year, and might be helpful for some of you making New Year's resolutions:

I like books that use behavioral science and / or neuroscience to guide recommendations. To that end, @bjfogg 's Tiny Habits is really good. Maybe the best productivity book I read all year. https://t.co/ofggjSfkVW
The best one I read last year was @jamesclear's Atomic Habits. It's a quick, easy read and it prompted me to start habit tracking, which has been really useful: https://t.co/hxNrt0IQkm
I don't have hyperactivity issues but I have big inattentive issues, so CBT strategies for adult ADHD have been very helpful for me. This one's a little pricey, but had some techniques that I hadn't seen before: https://t.co/KAGuHglDl7
This one is about systematizing research and ideas using a methodology called Zettlekasten that was developed by a German sociologist. https://t.co/NkYWsT4V5o
Zettlekasten takes some investment, but it's been a vast improvement on my usual system of Take Notes In A Notebook And Then Never Do Anything With Them. More about it here: https://t.co/ERzOvoCev5
Also, I've been doing some version of Julia Cameron's Morning Pages for a while, but mine doesn't have a page req and it's more like Morning Garbage Brain. I dump whatever's distracting me into a Word Doc and then it's out of mind long enough for me to get work done.
Lastly, I live with two humans who hate silence. I like silence. Silence is great. But now we're all together 24 hours a day thanks to covid, so I finally invested in some high grade earplugs. Five year old can play Kidz Bop all day, but I don't have to hear it.
That's all I got. But if you have recommendations, drop them in this thread, because I'm always looking for new techniques/strategies I haven't seen before.

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2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
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3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

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