“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.” — Stephen R. Covey

“What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.” — Tim Ferriss

“The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work.” — Paul Graham

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“The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.” ― Gretchen Rubin

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” — C.S. Lewis

It doesn’t matter how fast you move if it’s in a worthless direction. Picking the right thing to work on is the most important element of productivity and usually almost ignored. Productivity in the wrong direction isn’t worth anything at all. Think more about what to work on.

Velocity (vector) over Speed (scalar)

Efficiency Vs. Efficacy

“The difference between efficiency and effectiveness is the difference between knowledge and wisdom.” — Dr. Russell L. Ackoff ¹

• 「效率 (Efficiency)」是把事情做好 (Doing things right)，而「效能 (Effectiveness/Efficacy)」則是做對的事情 (Doing the right things) ²
• Become a strategist. It is much more important to do the right things compared to doing things right.
• 許多人習慣談論「效率」，卻較少使用「效能」這個詞，因此常常將兩者混淆。而所謂的「效率」，其實是建立在「效能」的前提/基礎上討論的 — 唯有確保做對的事情，提升效率才有意義。因此，在談效率時，是假設已經在做對的事情了。
• 在任何行動之前，我們應該先思考:「這件事是該做的嗎? 」(效能) ，然後再考慮如何把它做好 (效率) 。
• It’s important to balance quantity with the quality and value of your work
• 「對人」講求「效能」，「對事」講求「效率」
• 生產力不是指做了多少事 (efficiency)，而是成就了多少事 (efficacy)。
• 知識工作不像生產線，能用「每小時生產多少零件」衡量，而是需要考量工作成果的品質與影響力，強調「效能」而非僅僅是「效率」。

See Also

• If it isn’t fuck YES, then it’s clear NO thank you