Breaking Up with Productivity Advice Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
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Breaking Up with Productivity Advice Breaking Up with Productivity Advice
👉 Everything you've been told about productivity is backward
Every method, every app, aims to get your tasks and projects organized. And they always work... for a few days, maybe a few weeks
But it never sticks. You're still frazzled, still frustrated
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To be productive, you need to set up systems for holding ideas, and those systems need to be optimized for retrieval of information. After all, if you have a bunch of systems for holding ideas but it takes you hours to comb through them and find the one you’re looking for, what’s the point?
Nick Sonnenberg • Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.