On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> wrote:
Since then I've had to do some winnowing of my own every few years, but it > is progressively harder to do this now. This is exactly the point that Cory is making: <q> But today, thanks to a vicious Darwinian winnowing process, the only activities left in my day serve double- and triple-duty. There is virtually no moment in my working day that can cleanly be billed to only one ledger. The corollary of this is that it gets much, much harder to winnow out activities over time. Anything I remove from the Jenga stack of my day disturbs the whole tower. And *that *means that undertaking new things, speculative things that have no proven value to *any *of the domains where I work (let alone all of them) has gotten progressively harder, even as I’ve grown more productive. Optimization is a form of calcification. That presents a paradox: if the purpose of lifehacking is to mindfully choose your priorities, what can you do when that process leads you to a position where no more choices are possible? </q> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
