The Psychological Principles That Make Kanbans So Powerful

Once you understand them, you can supercharge any productivity system

McKinley Valentine
Curious
Published in
7 min readOct 7, 2020

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post-its for a kanban wall
Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash

aka “How I stopped my brain turning to soup during lockdown”

At its most basic, a kanban is three vertical columns — To Do, Doing, and Done — with tasks moving across as you progress…

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McKinley Valentine
Curious

Full-time writer based in Melbourne, Australia. I make cult-hit newsletter The Whippet: Science, history, weirdness, and non-cliched advice | thewhippet.org