Principles for deep work tools
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Principles for deep work tools
If we try to use a tool without putting any thought into the way we work with it, even the best tool would not be of much help. The slip-box, for example, would most likely be used as an archive for notes – or worse: a graveyard for thoughts
timeless and unchanging principles.
The Craftsman Approach to Tool Selection: Identify the core factors that determine success and happiness in your professional and personal life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts.
For thousands of years, people outsourced ownership over their creativity to a mythical being. Today, the Muse has been replaced with other ideas: the guru, the industry expert, the case study, the random moments of inspiration, and of course, the best practice. We fall victim to a false belief that we must locate something “out there” in order to
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