This is a note: a shorter, rougher piece I'm posting to stay in the habit of writing. It hasn't been polished the way my regular posts are.

Productivity

  • Prioritize Systems, that are malleable. If you can adjust something to your workflow and you save seconds/minutes on every run, that adds up quickly. Examples: Vim, Omarchy
  • Use AI for automation and adjusting systems to your preferences (if the system allows that, like omarchy)
  • Use agents as shortcuts. Complex workflows can be described once, and just started with “Do x”
  • Only improve systems in bursts. Maybe I am the only one, but I can spend several days improving a system, while most of the benefit can be reaped in the first 20% of the work. The 80/20 rule is totally over used, but often a good thinking model.
  • Use short cuts: Keyboard shortcuts, shortcuts in a terminal to start a workflow, text expansion for recurring text, etc.
  • Prioritize on simple interfaces. Remove everything unnecessary. Use vim zen mode, use fullscreen in omarchy, use the zen browser where you don’t see other tabs.
  • Rethink a lot of traditional advice on productivity in the age of agents. They don’t care about tiresome work and can run in the background. Make an agent sort, order or simplify all of your notes, if that improves finding something easier.
  • Use dication. Speech is faster than writing, and allows you to provide me context in a shorter time span.
  • Always, and I mean always ask yourself what is really necessary and what is the cost/time balance. For example in cooking: Dicing the onion super fine costs 2-3x the time, but only improves the taste by 10%. Might be worth it on special ocassions when cooking for guests, but not in everyday life.

Learning

  • Embrace Antifragility
  • Use everything you learn. At least discuss it with another person. Even better if you can use it in a project, or write about it. Writing is the best way to test your knowledge.
  • Do everything whole heartedly. No matter the subject, try to improve as fast as possible. Everything is more fun, if you are good at it. To get faster, look at the next point.
  • Focus on concepts over specific facts. Examples: In cooking, learn what categories mix well together, what the order of cooking the ingredients changes, etc.
  • Enjoy what you are doing. You will spend more time overall, if you enjoy what you are working on.

Health

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