The recent proliferation of productivity methods, software, and articles sheds some light on an interesting aspect of modernity. 1/?
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The stereotypical narrative is that you try some productivity system for a few days or weeks, and it doesn't work; so you switch to a new system for a few days; it doesn't work either, and before you know it, you're spending all your time reading articles about productivity 2/?
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instead of actually being productive. I believe all productivity systems are doomed to failure because they all lack one key feature; FAITH. You are waiting for the perfect productivity system, that you KNOW will work and will help you achieve your goals. 3/?
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But none of these systems are actually time-tested or geared towards the specific work you are trying to do, so you doubt, and fail. Masters probably passed much useful productivity advice (not framed as such) to their apprentices, but those lineages died out a long time ago. 4/?
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An actual system for organizing your life in a productive manner that people will actually follow doesn't look like GTD; it looks like the Rules of Saint Benedict. 5/6
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Nowhere is this desire for a god-given system of life management more apparent than in programming, where software development paradigms (Agile, Scrum, Kanban, etc) serve as an imitation of the rules. Many programmers are monks looking for a monastery. 6/6
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I think the fact that these systems aren't geared toward any *specific* kind of life/work is the biggest reason for their failure, aside from the lack-of-faith point. 7/6
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