1. I don’t care if there’s an app for that, Stephanie – Jonathan Goodman
I was at dinner with a young colleague when I got an idea for a project I’m working on. I quickly tapped the idea into an email,
sent it to myself, and returned to the conversation.
The colleague was appalled. "You know there’s an app for that, right?"
"An app for what?"
"An app you enter ideas into. It organizes the ideas so you can be more productive."
"I don’t care if there’s an app for that, Stephanie," I told her. Why would I, when my system is easy and simple and, most important, does exactly what I need it to do?
Bigger point:
Hacks or shortcuts are meaningless without strategies and principles. And when you have strategies and principles, the goal isn’t to "be more productive." It’s to produce the right work for the right reasons.
Not to do more work, but to do better work. To get good at what you do.
There isn’t an app for that.
There’s no hack for skill or knowledge or experience.
The more energy you expend searching for shortcuts,
the less you’ll have for the hard, intentional work that leads to success. Â
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