The Imperfectionist: The unproductivity challenge
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The Imperfectionist: The unproductivity challenge
3-2-1: The excuses we live by, how to handle your mistakes, and when productivity doesn't matter
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The Imperfectionist: Doing things is what counts
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“Here’s what I mean: everyone seems to yearn for the productivity technique or life philosophy or set of personal rules that will cause them to do more writing, launch a business, be a better listener, or finally start meditating. But nothing beats actually doing a bit of the thing to reinforce to yourself that you’re capable of making progress on it. The best way to convince a five-year-old that enjoyable leisure doesn’t require addictive technology is to spend a few hours demonstrating that it doesn’t; and the best way to prove to yourself that you can add words to the manuscript of your novel is to add a few.”
This whole painful irony is especially striking in the case of email, that ingenious twentieth-century invention whereby any random person on the planet can pester you, at any time they like, and at almost no cost to themselves, by means of a digital window that sits inches from your nose, or in your pocket, throughout your working day, and often o
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
This includes, crucially, checking e-mail, as well as browsing work-related websites.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
makes an empty email inbox a weekly goal: As long as he gets to everything by the end of the week, he’s good. Give
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
... See moreColin Nagy • The Folksonomy Edition
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