Original link: http://www.cnfeat.com/blog/2022/06/09/liqi2/
Creators seem to have a mystical obsession with productivity, and they like to get together and discuss each other’s interest and enjoyment.
In 2015, a website called Sharp Tool appeared on the Chinese Internet. A large number of outstanding creators gathered here. At first, they just shared their list of productivity tools, and then they extended the topic to creation methods, working environment, diet, work and rest rules, etc. As of 2019, the site has output 484 articles.
For a while, the sharp tool was updated every day, and I had to read every article, but I couldn’t read them one by one due to time or work.
It was not until this year that I started to summarize my productivity system. After writing down more than 100,000 words of experience, I suddenly realized that “how can I write about productivity without looking at sharp tools”, so I spent 3 days brushing all the articles on Ligan.com in chronological order. .
After such a brush, I found that these collections of interview articles on productivity are simply a history of the popularity, demise and evolution of productivity tools and production methods.
From the perspective of “healthy and long-term” improving productivity, I would like to share 2 of my experiences.
Let go of the obsession with production tools
The tools that were popular in 2015 are fresh and stunning, one person has one, everyone is talking about them, and they are in full swing, but from the perspective of 2022, they are common.
In 2015, those expensive tools that were thought to greatly increase productivity will be available at a cheap price in 2022, and there seems to be little room for improvement when using them now.
So I will think
- Why are the tools that were popular then no longer popular, but why are the tools that are popular today?
- At that time, the tools that you thought would improve productivity will have a gap in the feeling of using them now?
- What do I think about tools that I think will improve productivity now?
I just saw such a question recently: what software will survive for a hundred years? Migrating this question to the field of productivity is “what kind of productivity tools have/will survive for a hundred years?”
I often see that more productive creators will use lower-level and more basic thinking, and use simpler tools to achieve creation. Jeff Huang, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University For the past 12 years, a productivity tool was just a .txt file.
Personally, in the field of writing, I focus more on cards as a tool.
The card tool has survived for a hundred years. The predecessors have experienced countless practices. The simplest but full of infinite possibilities. All software note-taking tools are extensions of the card. Master the writing method of a card, and you can often be familiar with other note-taking tools.
Recently, I am preparing to summarize my daily experience of writing cards into a manual called “Practical Guide for One Card in Daily Class”, which will be completed soon, so stay tuned.
The word “hundred years” inspired me to ask another question: If an organization is seen as a tool, how can it survive for a hundred years?
Healthy long-term production is the most important
The author’s blog address will be left in most of the Chinese productive text interviews of Sharp Tool, but after three years, have more than 90% of the personal blog links been broken or invalid? The history of bankruptcy, the initial ambition of starting a business, and most of them died in the end.
In this way, over a period of several years, does it matter whether the productivity tools are the latest and greatest? Is a list of tools of the moment useful to readers in perpetuity?
I remember seeing these tool lists and sharing them with great interest at the time, but now I don’t feel that way anymore. Most tools have faded over time, and what attracts me the most is the content that has nothing to do with the production tools.
Most productivity tools will be outdated, only the production methods related to productivity concepts will never be outdated. I prefer to read the stories of creators.
I will think, what is the eternal way of creation?
Stories are the healthy and long-lasting way of communication, life issues are the first driving force for creation, and people themselves are the first tool for productivity.
Talk less about tools and more about practice.
Most software tools will be upgraded, but the most important thing is that people’s concept of productivity also needs to be upgraded. You might as well write more real stories, actions and summaries, honestly, and find ways to maintain production healthily and for a long time. The most important thing.
After all, continuous creation is the eternal way of creation. ∎
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