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Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
We need to be careful to not optimize everything to be efficient. Efficiency is for robots, humans are inefficient. “Every single thing that we really value as humans is terribly inefficient” Science, discovery, art, adventure are all inefficient
David Perell • Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future
sari added
Efficiency is highly overrated; Goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals, vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
The Technium • 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known
I think there are things in life that you want to telescope and compress and accelerate and streamline and make more efficient. And there are things where the value is precisely in the inefficiency, in the time spent, in the pain endured, in the effort you have to invest.
Rory Sutherland • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Agalia Tan added
More effort is wasted doing things that don't matter than is wasted doing things inefficiently. And if that is the case, elimination is a more useful skill than optimization. I am reminded of the famous Peter Drucker quote, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
James Clear • The Ultimate Productivity Hack is Saying No
In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency
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Hrisikesh Medhi added
All the time and energy you spend fixing your unforced errors comes at the expense of moving toward the outcomes you want. There is a huge advantage in having more of your energy instead go toward achieving
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
If you recognize that inefficiency—“bullshit,” as Pressfield puts it—is ubiquitous, then the question is not “How can I avoid all of it?” but “What is the optimal amount to put up with so I can still function in a messy and imperfect world?”