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(1) Task Breakdown. Are most people aware that the knowledge work skills above even exist — let alone breaking them down into their individual micro-tasks?
(2) Measurement how long each task takes. Do most people track their time? If so, are they tracking their micro-tasks?
(3) Experiment to find the one best way. Are people simply using good-enough rules of thumb or are they using the scientific method to find the optimal approach?
(4) Train for standardization. Once the optimal approach has been figured out, are most people being trained in them?
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(5) Productivity doesn’t make us a machine. One of the main reasons science has progressed so far is tools that help us get finer grain, objective perspectives on reality than our senses can. I now understand how timing myself and building a granular, objective map of my thought/...
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Just like the microscope unveiled entire universes of organisms (viruses, germs) and matter (quarks, atoms), finer attention to detail opens a whole new world of productivity.
(7) Knowledge work productivity can be 50x’d. Knowledge work is still in its infancy. This means ...
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(9) It’s worth each of us individually spending hundreds (if not thousands) of hours improving our productivity.
“We realized that the true problem, the true difficulty, and where the greatest potential is — is building the machine that makes the machine. In other words, i...
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I write, design, I edit videos + some other experiments 🧪 :. on refactored perception + trying to improve cognition using info clusters & visuals ~
If you want to be more productive, you need to build your knowledge factory first.
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