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Minimum viable productivity

Minimum viable productivity

- What is the most important productivity hack ever invented? Get ready to write this down. It's a really complex system. Actually, it's not. It is a simple principle: doing the right thing is more important than doing anything efficiently. In other words, you want to choose effectiveness over efficiency. But what makes something effective? Well, in short, it's doing something that you feel is purposeful or that makes real progress towards an important goal, instead of just completing tasks for the sake of completing tasks. I call this minimum viable productivity. It's choosing the effective thing rather than the efficient thing. In fact, the most important thing you can do to be both more productive and generally happier is to work on something you enjoy. I know a small business owner who writes and mails handwritten cards to every customer who purchases her protein powder. Now, she has a lot of customers.…

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