Minimum Viable Productivity

So practice making fast decisions. Accept the risk and emotional labour involved in doing so. Course correct when you make mistakes and don’t get pregnant unless you really want to.

Being productive means “moving the things you want to move in the direction you want to move them.”

To summarize: quickly, roughly decide what needs to be moved and where it needs to go . Only use physical paper (or Apple Notes). Over time you’ll train your intuition to naturally focus on what really matters.

[Minumum Viable Productivity]: A good enough 👌 practice that helps us move the things we want to move 💪 even on our worst days, while providing a foundation for more sophistication 🌱 across time.

A very small subset of your decisions are one-way doors. Non-reversible portals into bad realities. These ones should take you more time. They require more information.

This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.

Productivity systems are procrastination tools for slow decision-makers.