Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
Simon Joliveau Breney
@simonjb
If instead of 10% you try to improve 10x, you completely change the conversation.
Doing more won’t cut it. You can’t go 10x with optimization. You need to radically re-think how you get from A to B.
Only when you make a goal impossible, you’re forced to stop working based on your current assumptions and knowledge.
AI and Capitalism
I quickly learned that it was easier for me to focus on work in the hours before lunch, so when I found myself struggling with a not-so-hard task late in the day, I’d give myself permission to quit and pick it up again in the morning. Almost every time, I’d breeze through and finish in a fraction of the time it would’ve taken me the previous night.
... See more“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
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