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by Claude_Shannon 1183 days ago
I reread what I wrote and I spoke to rashly; I apologise for that, especially the latest fragment.

But still I can't shake that feeling that perhaps what this does is just teaching yourself to be content with mediocrity and not in the good sense.

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Optimizing yourself into answering emails instead of building stuff is pigeonholing yourself into mediocrity.

Being more productive does not necessarily make you better at things, and the article really argues that increasing your productivity on the wrong things negatively impacts your productivity on the right things.