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Productivity Advice
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See moreTo 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.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.