Creativity > Productivity
As Every CEO Dan Shipper writes, most productivity tools are built for convergence, the part of creativity that involves narrowing down and refining ideas. They aren’t built for divergence, which involves opening ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Creativity > Productivity
- You are not a knowledge worker. You are a creative human being.
- You’re often most creative when you’re least productive
- Creativity is not a process. One of the most salient traits of creative visionaries like Walt Disney and Steve jobs was the absence of process.
- You do not need more productivity systems. You need to p
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Today’s knowledge workers carry a growing sense of anxiety. We have more tools than ever, but these options rarely match how we actually create. Rather than build more technology that keeps us on a miserable hamster wheel of churning out more shallow content, we have a unique opportunity to design tools that encourage us to slow down and create wit... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
If execution is no longer scarce, the thinking goes, then the only way to stand out is to do more of it. The result is a kind of productivity treadmill: lots of movement, little meaning.
This logic is, of course, flawed and self-defeating. When output becomes frictionless, quantity can become a liability.
The more we produce without purpose, the har... See more
This logic is, of course, flawed and self-defeating. When output becomes frictionless, quantity can become a liability.
The more we produce without purpose, the har... See more
Sangeet Paul Choudary • The vibe coding paradox
One of the main reasons we struggle so much with creativity is that the culture we live in is obsessed with productivity.