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Thinking Real Progress
It’s hard to feel progress when sieging a castle. With multiple attempts, failures teach you one more thing that wouldn't work in the situation. One would have to wait for failures to end and a breakthrough to finally come. There’s no progress bar because the distance is still unknown.
Real progress occurs when we hold the maxim that it is better to fail at what matters than to succeed at something trivial.
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Sieging The Castle
Imagine a task of sieging a castle. First you try the front gate, and get repelled. Then you try the ramparts on the side. You dig tunnels and construct battering rams. Progress is zero until you finally break through.
Frustrations and fatigue mount with each failure.
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Making Real Work More Tractable
We can make changes in our productivity systems to shift away from the easy satisfaction of checking off to-do items.
- Elevate the status of your sincere attempts. Measure your day with progress than hours, this naturally pushes to more tractable tasks.
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Tractability = 1/Opportunity
A task could be broken down. And by exploring difficulties it entails, the space becomes more valuable as the competition reduces. Tractable tasks are easier. But that also means there is more competition. Paul Graham argues this to be a major factor behind the success of compani...
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Measuring Progress
We all crave progress. That craving distorts what and how we work on things. Vital pursuits with less tangible progress are frequently sidelined for trivialities we can check off a to-do list.
It's like waiting for a computer task to complete. Wouldn't it be harder if the progress ...
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