Build Your AttentionOS: Stop Managing Time, Start Shipping What Matters
Alex Migutsky
Career Strategist for Software Engineers
A personal system: captures everything, surfaces what matters, hides the rest.
You ship reliably at work. The things YOU care about keep getting pushed to weekends that never come.
The roadmap item you've been trying to scope. The improvement proposal. The side project. The design doc. The business idea. The chapter of the book. Six months later, still in the same "someday" list.
Discipline isn't the fix.
The signal in your week is buried under noise - other people's priorities, notifications, reactive work. By the time you have bandwidth, you can't see what deserves it.
AttentionOS is the personal system that filters your week down to the signal and holds it in your attention. Built over 9 years and 34,000 tracked items while I shipped Microsoft To Do from 0 to 30M users and built everything I've built outside a job.
In 5 weeks, you build five connected pieces:
Capture - nothing lives in your head
Select - a sprint tuned to your rhythm (2 weeks to a quarter)
Execute - do the work without deciding each morning
Track - shipped work becomes evidence, not memory
Compound - real work becomes skill growth
You leave with infrastructure and habits that develop you. You see what matters. You ship what you picked. The evidence stacks up. That's how confidence gets built.
What you’ll learn
Build your personal system that surfaces what matters and runs on signal-driven habits - so you consistently ship what you choose.
Set up AttentionOS in your app of choice: projects, people, activities, resources, inbox, and archive in one place
Replace scattered tools and mental tracking with a daily top-to-bottom scan habit
Know what to work on each day without deciding from scratch every morning
Build three calendar layers: appointments, time blocks, and personal rhythm triggers
Set your own sprint cadence - 2 weeks, a month, or a quarter - tuned to the work and your rhythm
Select sprint projects from your system based on impact, not urgency or habit
Protect deep work time with a structure that survives meeting-heavy weeks
Start each day from a prioritized top-down view with clear priorities
Build the execution routines that make the work happen without daily decision costs
Install Impact Accounting: capture what you did and why it mattered using STAR+ format
Tag every active project with the LENS prioritization framework to see where your effort and energy go
Build a record that your manager can use in calibration rooms without you needing to remind them
Apply the LEPS cycle: Learn, Practice, Experiment, Share on one real skill gap at work
Identify which skill gap matters most from your impact data, not from guessing
Turn learning into a visible output that your team benefits from, compounding your reputation
Connect attention management, calendar, impact tracking, execution and learning into one flow
Walk away when life demands it and return without starting over - the system holds, you scan, reshuffle, and you're back in 15 minutes
Trade scheduled reviews for signal-driven maintenance - inbox backs up, sprint ends, something feels off - that's when you clean up
Learn directly from Alex
Alex Migutsky
Career Strategist for Software Engineers, ex. Senior Engineer @ Microsoft/GitHub
Who this course is for
- You have real work you want to ship. The chaos keeps eating the hours.
- You've started things you believed in. You can't remember when you last finished one on schedule.
- You can name three things you'd build if your week had room. You can also name the last six months of weeks that didn't have room.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Alex Migutsky in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Week 2
Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs / week
Two 90-minute application sessions per week via Zoom. No lectures - you read the concepts async. Live time is for building your system, diagnosing problems, and getting feedback on your real work. You leave every session with something built, not something learned.
Projects
1 hr / week
Every week you build one piece of your execution system using your real work - not hypothetical exercises. Each week's deliverable feeds the next - you can't skip ahead, and by week 5 the full system is running.
Async content
1-2 hrs / week
Text articles available from day one. Written for engineers who read fast and skip fluff. Every article ends with a prep question for the live session and an AI prompt for deeper exploration. No videos. No slides. Read at your own pace.
Testimonials
Calendar + attention OS became the cornerstone of protecting different modes of brain functioning, organising inbox and rebalancing the cognitive load. It will help me answer questions like 'what've you done in the last half a year' way better than 'okay let's open my commits and try making sense of it.'
Bogdan Kirillenko
Senior Engineer at JetBrainsAttentionOS as interface to all other systems. Huge steps in making head clear with confidence I don't lose things and can find them if needed. I started dumping inbox as a routine. Completely changed the way I treat my technical decision making process as expert after learning how experts' brains work. This reduced both anxiety and time spent on the job.
Stas Tsallagov
Data Scientist and Fitness CoachI added to my calendar all things which I need to care of during a day. Visually I start seeing that I have max 5 hours of work. So I started using 'work blocks' from lecture with 25-10-25 intervals and it helped to deliver more. So I free time for myself doing the same amount of work.
Ivan M
Senior Software EngineerI've worked with Alex for a long time and his influence of me and my career is hard to measure. He helped me understand how I can scale up my influence and move beyond Senior Engineer title to something more meaningful for me. I am happy that he put all that knowledge into a course available for others!
Tim Zadorozhniy
Head of Engineering
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