Productivity
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Productivity
"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali
The Mountain or the Pebble | The Curiosity Chronicle
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott
[Minumum Viable Productivity]: A good enough 👌 practice that helps us move the things we want to move 💪 even on our worst days, while providing a foundation for more sophistication 🌱 across time.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
Our metrics of progress have continuously abstracted: from the tangible bushels of wheat in agricultural economies (with natural physical limits), to industrial-era efficiency metrics (units/hour, machine uptime), to the nebulous productivity measures of knowledge work. Each evolution has moved us further from human-scaled, naturally bounded... See more
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."