AttentionOS for Software Engineers
Alex Migutsky
Career Strategist for Software Engineers
The execution system that makes your work compound
You do good work. You know it. But your weeks fill up with reactive tasks, your impact is invisible to the people who decide your career, and you keep meaning to "get organized" without it sticking.
The problem isn't discipline. It's infrastructure.
AttentionOS is the execution system I built over 9 years and 34,000 tracked items. It's what I used to ship Microsoft To Do from zero to 30 million users, and what I've taught to dozens of engineers since.
In this course, you'll build four things:
A capture system that holds every commitment in one place - so nothing lives in your head
An impact tracking practice that documents your work in terms that decision-makers care about
A learning cycle that turns real work into skill growth - no weekend side projects required
Your personal rhythm that connects all three - and runs without constant maintenance
By the end, you'll have a system that makes your work visible, your learning deliberate, and your weeks intentional. You won't need motivation. You'll have infrastructure.
Format: Async articles + live application sessions.
You read the concepts on your own time. Live sessions are for building, diagnosing, and getting feedback on your real work.
What you’ll learn
Build the execution system that turns your daily work into visible, compounding career progress - without motivation or discipline.
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 that takes 5 minutes
Know what to work on each day without deciding from scratch every morning
Build three calendar layers: appointments, time blocks, and personal rhythm triggers
Select weekly sprint projects from your system based on impact, not urgency or habit
Protect deep work time with a structure that survives meeting-heavy weeks
Install Impact Accounting: capture what you did and why it mattered using STAR format
Tag every active project with LENO prioritization framework to see where your effort and energy goes
Build a record 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 visible output your team benefits from, compounding your reputation
Connect attention management, calendar, impact tracking, and learning into one daily flow
Walk through your full system with an accountability partner who checks what's missing
Leave the course with infrastructure that compounds, not notes that collect dust
Learn directly from Alex
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Alex Migutsky
Career Strategist for Software Engineers, ex. Senior Engineer @ Microsoft/GitHub
Who this course is for
- Mid-level engineer who ships good work but can't explain their impact. Weeks feel reactive. No system, just willpower
- Senior engineer doing Staff-level work nobody sees. Has the skills but not the infrastructure to make it consistent
- Experienced engineer rebuilding after burnout, a break, or a job change. Has the knowledge, lost the operating rhythm
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.
Frequently asked questions
$600
USD