Tyler Dane
Bio
I’m a frontend engineer who’s tried every productivity system out there — from bullet journals and GTD to second brains and AI time blocking. Most of them worked… until they didn’t.
While building my own open-source weekly planner and talking to users, I learned that I wasn't alone. Lots of us feel unorganized, overwhelmed, stuck. Contrary to what you see on socials, the solution isn't to spend an entire weekend setting up five AI apps or religiously following someone else's setup.
Instead, we just need to get the basics right, and make sure our systems can adapt as our lives change.
Implementing this simple advice has led to many years of good output, without the chaos.
This talk distills the lessons I learned, with an emphasis on combining practical tips that you can implement on day one with a new productivity philosophy that'll last a lifetime.
For a preview, I share practical productivity tips on my YouTube for normal people who want systems that actually make sense.
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- Entrepreneur Panel: Maximizing Value from a Mentor
- Saying sayonara to AWS: Leave the cloud. Run hardware. Save $10 million.
- Exploring the Question “What Is It We Understand We Are Testing For?”
- If No One Remembers You, Do You Even Exist? The REPEAT Framework for Making Your Message Stick
- AI Told You So: The $1M Business I Actually Built Using ChatGPT
- Radical Sabbatical - How I structured one year of creative web-dev
- The most important verb of the 21st century: Curation
- Beyond Hourly Rates: How Service Providers Build Wealth Through Shared Success Agreements
- 🤖 💬 Human Computer Interaction: The UX of AI
- How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 issues of the Weekly Thing
- I Made Every Marketing Mistake So You Don’t Have To (You're Welcome)
- The AI-Powered Professional: How Perplexity AI is Changing the Way We Work
- What’s Actually Going On with R&D Tax Credits? (And why founders should care before it bites them.)
- Find your Midjourney style and make it unmistakable
- Building Efficient & Resilient Engineering Teams
- Put Your Dream to the Test — Turning Vision into Reality
- The Only Productivity System That Actually Works — Yours
- Software Engineering in 2027 or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI Vibe Coding
- The IKEA Effect: Why Your Team Can’t Follow What’s Only in Your Head