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24 alternatives to PermissionLESS - Pamela Lund

A bias for MFing action.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. PermissionLESS - Pamela Lund launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   permissionLESS Podcast▲6

   A Bias for MF Action

   2016 · permissionless.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Without Permission▲147

   Lessons learned from reddit, hipmunk & YC - in book form!

   2014 · withouttheirpermission.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Permissionless Playbook▲99

   10x your online potential: build, monetize, succeed

   2023 · permissionless.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Permissionless Academy▲165

   Cohort learning community to build permissionless leverage

   2023 · permissionlessacademy.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   CleanMyDrive 2▲244

   A lightweight drive manager for Mac

   2015 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Love Your Work w/ David Kadavy - Productivity Hack: Do Nothing▲57

   Give yourself permission to do nothing once in awhile.

   2016 · delivery-edge.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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   Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61

   A new book on surviving the knowledge economy

   2016 · softcontrol.us · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Mumbly Hour: I Haven’t Filled My Daily Friend Requirement▲72

   On Productivity Tools and New Years Resolutions

   2016 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Speedback▲119

   Anonymous peer feedback via Slack

   2016 · speedback.co · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Nobody Wants To Read Your Sh*t▲70

    Valuable lessons for writing interesting content.

    2016 · blackirishbooks.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Limitless▲90

    A productivity companion for Chrome

    2013 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Codebreaker - Is It Evil? Data Tracking▲61

    Listen, decode, and decide: Is data tracking evil?

    2015 · marketplace.org · its alternatives →

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    null▲61

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    2018 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Becoming Superhuman: David Heinemeier Hansson▲125

    An interview with a real-world superlearner

    2016 · becomingasuperhuman.com · its alternatives →

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    Obfuscation▲53

    A user's guide for privacy and protest

    2015 · mitpress.mit.edu · its alternatives →

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    ESSL- 8: Carol Leaman▲52

    On making enterprise suck less.

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Bits▲85

    An open-source personal agent that gets you things done

    6d ago · bits.interfacesforhuman.com · its alternatives →

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    Freedcamp: Independence▲80

    Affordable project management software, redesigned

    2017 · freedcamp.com · its alternatives →

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    User Defenders: The Beauty Of Simplicity▲53

    David Demaree reminds us of the value of simplicity.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Essentialism▲77

    The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    2017 · gregmckeown.com · its alternatives →

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    Upsolve Row-Level Securityfree tier, from $500/mo▲90

    Data permissions your AI agent can't talk its way past

    20d ago · upsolve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Codebreaker - The Augmented Self▲61

    The man who collected too much data

    2016 · marketplace.org · its alternatives →

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    Note to Self - The Case for Infomagical▲62

    A campaign to end information overload

    2016 · waaa.wnyc.org · its alternatives →

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    99% Invisible - The Magic Bureaucrat▲62

    How overgeneralized correlational data influenced US welfare

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