Brain Food: Prioritization Beats Efficiency
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Brain Food: Prioritization Beats Efficiency
This reality creates a nasty, productivity-sapping circularity. When you’re overloaded, you’re forced to fall back on the flexibility of the hive mind. This workflow, however, leads to even more fragmentation of your attention, making you even less efficient in getting things done.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Returning to a culture that allows more separation between specialized and administrative work is crucial to moving past the hyperactive hive mind and significantly improving productivity.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Tackle the Monkey First:
"Let’s say you’re trying to teach a monkey how to recite Shakespeare while on a pedestal. How should you allocate your time and money between training the monkey and building the pedestal? The right answer, of course, is to spend zero time thinking about the pedestal. But I bet at least a couple of people will rush off a... See more
4. How do we want to do our jobs? Do we want to be part of a high-performance environment that results in daily excellence? If the answer is yes, then what behaviors are necessary to produce that result and what behaviors inhibit or negate that result?