Busyness

I’ve been working on refining my systems the past few weeks. And I’m being careful about taking a lot of the advice out there.

Cal Newport points out the rise in “productivity as a hobby.” (There’s been some backlash on “Toxic Productivity” content.)

I speculate like fitness tracking, the “busyness” of sorting, tagging, flipping switches in complex systems and apps scratch that productivity itch. 

It’s like running on a treadmill.

You’re doing the work, but technically not going anywhere. 

I did some Asana training and found myself even more overwhelmed than I was before.

I ended up making a spreadsheet version that’s basically a checklist. Sadly, I don’t think there’s a lot of content clicks to be made from it.