50 shades of productivity
What productivity looks like to me and why traditional productivity advice rarely stuck with me
50 shades of productivity
One bad habit of being a productivity nerd is trying to optimise every moment for usefulness.
Don't Optimise Your Downtime
It's funny that we invented machines to reduce our workload and enjoy more of our limited time on this planet.
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more an... See more
Yet, somewhere along the way, we drifted off course and started trying to work on overdrive, behaving like machines only to regret it later on our deathbeds ↗.
We try hacks and supplements to trick our minds and bodies into producing more an... See more
Makes me think of how the first AI tools that came to the public eye a couple of years ago were sold to us as productivity aids that could free us time from long, boring, or repetitive tasks and someone make us regain some time (or it might just be this is how I thought AI was being promoted to me/my social circle).
And yet, somewhere along the way, we began using AI as our planner, calendar or in support of it — basically asking natural language processing and AI algorithms to free us more time so we could… work more? Achieve more? Have something else to work on instead?
What about the time the machine help us free? Where has that gone?
We, humans, are far from anything like machines.
The sole purpose of a machine is to power on and work until it breaks down eventually.
For us humans, work is only a part of our overall life.
We have hobbies, relationships, and recreational activities that we need tending to.
Without these, we can only go so far before we break down and spiral into dep... See more
The sole purpose of a machine is to power on and work until it breaks down eventually.
For us humans, work is only a part of our overall life.
We have hobbies, relationships, and recreational activities that we need tending to.
Without these, we can only go so far before we break down and spiral into dep... See more
I’m guilty of treating myself like a machine sometimes even though I know this is true.
Too many people on social media are being exposed to the wrong kind of productivity advice from influencers these days.
Let's Not Be Machines By Rahul Chowdhury https://hulry.com/firesides/machines/
I greatly appreciated the chance to stress test my productivity system this last six months or so. I learned a few important lessons about myself:
- I’m imaginative in the less intensive part of the year and I imagine myself doing more than I’m capable of in the intense part of the year.
- When push came to shove, having a very basic, skeleton plan for e
Stress Testing Your Productivity System: Three Tips for When Your Productivity System Fails You – The Sweet Setup
Brilliantly describes the method (or non-method) that I think works well for me
3-3-3 Method - Fork My Brain
Never tried this but curious to see if it helps me feel I’ve achieved more at the end of the day
After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because there aren't an overwhelming number of them, but because it never occurred to you that it might be your job to get through them all.
oliverburkeman.com • Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
Yes, yes yes! Why is that we have to overburden ourselves with things to read later (be it books, articles, newsletters and stuff)? Is it all because of FOMO? Is it because we hope knowledge will save us - so the more we plan to absorb the better?
It's not a question of rearranging your to-do list so as to make space for all your "big rocks", but of accepting that there are simply too many rocks to fit in the jar. You have to take a stab at deciding what matters most, among your various creative passions/life goals/responsibilities – and then do that, while acknowledging that you'll inevitab... See more
oliverburkeman.com • Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
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