“He’s playing 4D chess while society plays checkers” okay but have you considered that if everyone else is playing checkers and you show up with a chess set, you’re not a genius, you’re just the guy who can’t read the room? Like the optimal strategy for a checkers game is not “bring chess pieces and move them diagonally while muttering about zugzwang” that’s just losing at checkers with a superiority complex
every "life-changing" productivity system is just:
- write things down
- look at what you wrote
- do those things
we've reinvented the todo list 47 times
The internet makes you feel like you're always late.
To trends. To skills. To opportunities.
You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.
it just turns out that when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane. This is called “progress”
Modern work: you get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the Zoom where you take notes in Notion to track progress on Trello and you get to Friday and you've just moved the same crap around in 17 databases and each one costs $20 (30% off annual)
