Building elaborate systems to avoid actually doing the work; spending months perfecting your productivity setup instead of producing
"I spent two years building systems to avoid the important work of testing them"
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🪞 Seeing the System
Honey, You're Just a Spring Chicken
No matter your age, letting go of past traumas or narratives frees up our future. To your future self, you are currently that young, "anything could happen" version of you. There is always possibility.
Among other things, sustainable productivity requires keeping a larger perspective about the role of work in our lives. It requires maintaining boundaries with your definitions (you are not your job) and your time (recharging is not a luxury).