Productivity

We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water. Elevator operators, switchboard attendants, bank... See more

For decades, the neurotic hamster in us approached knowledge management by compulsively tagging. We’d find something interesting and slap as many tags on it as we could to increase our chances of finding it again: #machine #robots #tech #ai #productivity #mindfulness.

This made sense in a pre-AI world, where tagging was the only way to ensure... See more

As Every CEO Dan Shipper writes, most productivity tools are built for convergence, the part of creativity that involves narrowing down and refining ideas. They aren’t built for divergence, which involves opening ourselves up to new ideas and possibilities.