added by Stuart Evans and · updated 2y ago
Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft
- To the extent you’re going back to working on your tools, it should be driven by some noticeable shortcomings in the actual work. Your knife isn’t cutting like it used to. You’re losing too much time to email. Tool work should always be a focused attempt to fix a specific problem, not passive information consumption hoping to find a quick win that ... See more
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Stuart Evans added 2y ago
- To attempt to provide some minimum-viable-scaffolding for productivity, so you can turn off the feed and get back to work, here it is in one sentence: Do the most important thing for a few high-energy hours, with minimal interruptions, every day.
from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
- Most of us are wasting time we could be spending learning our craft by playing around with our tools and washing our pickup truck instead of hauling anything.
from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
- We need to find the minimum viable scaffolding to get our work started and then focus on doing the work from there, making little adjustments as we go.
from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
Stuart Evans added 2y ago
- Myles helped me avoid an easy error:
Putting the tool before the craft.from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
David Pennington added 6mo ago
- For the most part, I was using my vast expertise in productivity to... make more content about productivity.
from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
David Pennington added 6mo ago
- our productivity methodology is just a tool. And it’s a mistake to confuse tool sharpening, or worse, tool buying, with actual work.
from Don't Put the Tool Before the Craft by Nat Eliason
Stuart Evans added 2y ago