Always Be Optimizing
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Always Be Optimizing
It's funny that we invented machines to reduce our workload and enjoy more of our limited time on this planet.
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more an... See more
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more an... See more
"Any maximizing, economistic approach to living becomes a kind of hoarding as the means and ends reverse and it tips over into irrationality. It’s hoarding when I keep opening tabs, when I try to get to the end of my RSS article queue, when I use iTunes play counts to organize my listening habits, when I buy books I won’t live to read, when all ema... See more
Rob Horning • Clutter images
Craft
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Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.