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LM: #322: The productive dance
Classic “productivity” has hit its limit.
As the world mechanized, so, too, did we. Output became measured, tasks became defined, calendars got filled.
Put enough holes in Swiss cheese and eventually you have no cheese. The mechanistic approach to productivity has hit the limits of the human mind and body.
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The same technological advances that have optimized our wetware to its limits have also changed our economic system. The classic understanding of productivity was based upon the idea that if you did this, you would get that. But economies of scale have created a winner-take-all environment. Winner-take-all across many, many, more games, but still winner-take-all.
And so too much productivity advice assumes predictable outcomes in a stable world, executed with an absence of intuition under perfect discipline.
To be productive now is a dance with chance. Like any dance, the steps aren’t linear (not even in line dancing), and it takes some improvisation.
Fortunately, this allows us to be more human, not less.
Aphorism: “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” —Linus Pauling
Book: Buy Back Your Time (Amazon) is SaaS coach Dan Martell’s guide for focusing on high-value actions.
Best,
David
P.S. Why I’m meditating 300 hours.
