Cal Newport

You can get away with almost anything you want.

So I think that's, more people should make that move, especially in the AI age, I suppose.

More people should make that move towards like, hey, hold me accountable.

and then do the work to actually show up, it makes your life so, it's such a better way to go through knowledge work.

You get away from that hyperactive hive mind, brain melting, distracting, soul crushing, slack all day long nonsense.

Yeah, I mean, I would do a few things.

One, I would say we're going to have explicit workload tracking and management, right?

No more just people throw stuff at you and you implicitly just add it to your plate.

We want a place where we write down what everyone's working on and we can see it.

And now we can start talking about things like what is an ideal WIP?

What's an ideal work in progress limit for an individual?

How many things do we want someone working on at the same time before that curve starts to go the other way?

So what you have to do once you start doing that

They're saying we need a place to track things that need to be done that no one is actively working on right now and we can feel okay about it.

So I would definitely want to set up where things enter into our radar of this needs to be done.

There's a place for that to go and to be stored.

Yes.

And it's not on anyone's plate because as soon as you are responsible for something, it generates email slack and meetings.

So once it's on your plate,

it begins to spin off administrative overhead and slow productivity, I call it the overhead tax.