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The End of Productivity
When you find something that resonates, its use is not always immediately apparent. A line in a song might be the seed for your next coding project or inspire the title for the book you’re writing. It can be difficult to predict how something that resonates today might be useful in the future.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
On gathering and collecting information
“Do more, faster.” As AI commoditizes speed and output, however, this pursuit will lose its value.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
They ask for timelines when the problem itself is still hazy.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
AI am what AI am
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
To do our best creative thinking, we need tools that seamlessly support both modes. We should be able to capture ideas effortlessly in the moment, then organize them with purpose when the time is right. This balance between seamless capture and intentionality is essential for supporting creativity.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Tools like 3D CAD are excellent for creating designs, but not particularly useful for deciding what to design in the first place. Project management tools such as Asana, Linear, and Trello can help us manage workflows by creating and organizing lists of tasks. But it’s impossible to build the right workflow if you don’t know what outcome you’re wor... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
There are two modes of information discovery: foraging and hunting. Foraging is passive. You don’t have a clear goal; you just wander and scroll until something catches your interest. Hunting is active and purposeful. You know what you’re looking for and are consciously searching for it. A good information diet needs both: Foraging helps us decide ... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust. Just as calculators shifted math from rote computation to conceptual exploration, AI can nudge creative work toward the things humans are uniquely good at: thinking and feeling deeply.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust.
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
the creative process typically involves three steps:
- Collecting: Gathering interesting ideas
- Connecting: Drawing connections and organizing materials
- Creating: Producing something new