Productivity
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Productivity
As a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else—even something... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
Make it incredibly easy to do whatever you want to do. You want to design your life for the least effective, least intelligent, least conscientious version of yourself. That person is probably an idiot.
Sasha Chapin • Some Advice Gathered From People Smarter Than Me
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“Many people (by which I meant me) seem to feel as if they start off each morning in a kind of "productivity debt", which they must struggle to pay off through the day, in hopes of reaching a zero balance by the time evening comes. Few things feel more basic to my experience of adulthood than this vague sense that I'm falling behind, and need to
... See moreThe problem with ‘productivity’ is that it is concerned with managing and increasing output: producing widgets, quarterly reports, the next release of the software, yet another research report, and meanwhile, always aspiring to do more with less. Less waste, less idle time on the assembly line, and fewer workers. The end game is to speed up the... See more
Stowe Boyd • The Problem of Productivity
Cost of Delay is NOT a sum of money, except in extreme examples of total loss due to delay. More typically, the value leaks away gradually – so it is almost always a rate. If you are delayed one week, then the Delay Cost incurred is often a fraction of what it would be if you were delayed by 10 weeks. For this reason, it’s usually better to express... See more
Qualitative Cost of Delay
