Matteo Negri on Posts

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?

Every minute we spend trying to mentally juggle all the stuff we have to do leaves less time for more meaningful pursuits

Focus means head down. Big picture means head up. The more you’re doing of one, the less you’re doing of the other. If you’ve been head-down on a task for too long, lift your head up to make sure you’re going the right way. Don’t do well what you shouldn’t do at all.