Saved by andrea and
Good Cogs and Their Tools
help knowledge workers rationalize their own work before it gets rationalized for them. To help them automate and systematize the simplistic tasks, so they can dedicate increasingly greater amounts of time and attention to the frontier of creativity.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
It’s a little depressing that these days we mainly use computers to consume fast and react fast. Task management turns us into more productive human machines. Rather conveniently for managers, human machines have higher predictability and lower inherent value – they’re easy to automate, replace, and erase.
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
pketh • Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered
The idea of augmenting our work with the help of software was well intended. But instead of creativity enhancing superpowers, we got attention-seeking productivity silos. Alerts here, notifications there. We are spending more time with the coordination of our work than with the work we actually want to get done. Our dream machines are more powerful... See more
Linear • Readme
What would it look like if, in a McLuhan-esque, medium is the message sort of way, our tools said to us:
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the ... See more
It’s gonna take you a while.
It’s normal to take a while.
It’d be weird if you made something beautiful so quickly.
The problem isn’t that you’re not working fast enough.
The problem is your expectations are not realistic.
Our AI helps you slow the ... See more
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
Slow productivity is just one response among many to a much bigger problem: The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured.