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Productivity Frontier
Let's say you plot all your schedules and leisures in a graph, it shows all your productive possibilities, time allotment, and situations of good work and sudden work.
Now, is your situation is Pareto efficient?
If we’re below the frontier, improvements is needed. We might choose to get more done without increasing our hours. The focus should be on trying to shift to a less wasteful situation.
But if you're on the frontier, the way to improve is by accepting trade-offs. While pursuing an ambitious career move, accept that this has working nights and weekends.
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Are You On The Edge?
If you're on the frontier, here are a few guidelines
- You’ve read and applied a lot of productivity advice, yoyre closer to the frontier and one who doesn’t even keep a to-do list is probably far from it.
- When you look in your schedule, there aren’t a lo...
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Getting Better Without Getting Worse
In an economy, Pareto Optimal state when no further changes in the economy can make one person better off without at the same time making another worse off. Named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto , the idea simply refers ...
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Comparing Trades
How should you compare these three designs?
The third option is obviously worse than the first two - it's slow and dangerous. But between the other two is a question of values. Maybe a race car driver would prefer faster at the cost of some safety. Maybe the soccer mom wants safe...
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Patterns Of Trade
Efficient frontiers reveal a general pattern. When you’re below the frontier, you can always improve simply by optimizing your choice. You can make a better choice by just pick an option that has more of what you want.
When you’re on the frontier, however, the only way to m...
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Innovating Changes
In engineering, new inventions promise faster and safer cars than what exist today. The frontier can shift.
In your work, there’s always the possibility of radical changes that might break the current frontier. Maybe you find a technique that lets you get much more...
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Optimize Options
If you're far from edge, optimize. Treat each element in isolation and improve it.Want to improve your work? Just reorganize and get more done!
If you're on the productive frontier, improvement comes from trade-offs. Would you rather have a clean house or m...
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Efficiency Frontier
What if there are more designs than the presented three? Such possibilities exist in some situations, surely with habits and situations. Here, putting them all on a graph, we can see that any of the ones on the inside of the frontier are bad choices.
Why?
Because there’s alwa...
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