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Obsession over tools, and the more trendy obsession over productivity ("My secret to be 10x more productive!!") ultimately seem tautological in the end: most people hooked up on these techniques will never stop talking about it, and sometimes even write books on the topic. Take the 2 most well-known authors on these topics: Tim Ferriss and Cal Newport. And look at their list of published works.

I've only very rarely seen actually productive people talk about the way they do things -- probably because they know there isn't a one technique, and have tailored their own things to themselves entirely. Balzac used debt to keep motivation alive, Hemingway wrote while standing up and used the counter of his chimney -- who cares?