🏠 Superlist CEO Niklas Jansen can’t work without this tool

GM! It’s Brett. I’ve been thinking about something I see all the time in big companies - people hiding behind fancy language.

Not because they’re dumb, but because the system basically trains you to talk in abstractions instead of saying what you actually did. And the problem is, the clearer you speak, the more competent you look. The more abstract you speak, the more it sounds like you’re covering for something.

If you want your career to move faster, you have to break this habit.

He believes in working like a lion - intense bursts, not endless grinding.

Here’s his full productivity stack:

Daily tools:
– Superlist for notes + team tasks
– Superhuman for email
– Notion Calendar for planning
– Zoom, Slack, WhatsApp for comms
– ChatGPT + Perplexity every day

Favorite AI tool: Fixkey - fixes typos with one click and lets him dictate emails. “Helps me write 3x faster.”

Can’t work without: Endel for generative background sound and deep focus.

Daily AI workflow:
Every morning he dumps everything in a custom ChatGPT project - it summarizes his tasks and drafts all messages for the day.

Other tools: Screen Studio for fast explainer videos, Superwhisper for voice-first computing.

Philosophy: Inspired by Essentialism - do fewer things, but better. Focus on what matters. Cut the rest.

Read the full blog here.

I finally figured out this secret.

My productivity has basically 10x’d, and the wild part is how simple the pattern is when you look at how the most successful people operate.

Take a look at this rundown of how many of the most successful people in the world did it - totally different personalities, same approach: FOCUS.

Paradoxically, if you stay relentlessly focused on single things at a time and say no to everything else, you get way more done.

Here’s exactly what I do now:
- Every week I figure out the most important things to do for Micro, in order.
- I block 4 hours every morning to do those things.
- I do not move on to other things until they’re done.

And honestly, the real unlock has been Micro itself - the all-in-one tool that keeps everything organized automatically. I’ve also started using the new AI agents to automate the boring stuff like labeling emails and updating CRM pipelines.

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Last week’s poll: If you guessed AI-generated… you were wrong.

🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~52%)

🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope (~48%)

Here’s the original.

Micro is a CRM that doesn’t feel like homework and an email client that knows what matters. Simply put, it’s an all-in-one productivity tool that organizes itself so you don’t have to.

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