productivity

A Manifesto of Human-Centered Work
Generativity is about caring about what comes after you.
Generativity is building the next version of yourself, your team, and your organization. This includes current work and all the work you’ll be capable of in the future. (autopoiesis)
For software development teams (among many others), companies care about the work they’re capable of doing. They care about productivity — the outward-facing work of the team.
«Open system vs closed system»
Generativity is hard to measure, but not so hard to detect. Ask, who helped you today? Who answered your questions and taught you something useful? What scripts or documentation or comments or variable naming made your work smoother?
If productivity is the externally visible work that is attributed to you, then I define:
Generativity - the difference between your team’s outcomes with you, vs without you.
It is not about me, and it is not about right now. I want to make my team and my company better for the future. I want to be generative.

• The Cult Of Done - YouTube
  
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  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
     

     1. Not Knowing is the initial stage where you are unaware or lack knowledge about something. It could be a problem, a task, a skill, or any situation. This stage is characterized by ignorance, uncertainty, and curiosity.
        
     2. the next phase is action. This is where you learn, explore, work, or take steps to change your state of not knowing. It involves effort, struggle, practice, and nearly always, mistakes.
        
     3. Completion is the final stage where the task or process is finished or the problem is solved. The state of not knowing has been transformed into knowledge or skill through your action.
        

     These three states are cyclical and continuous: after completion, you have a better understanding of the problem, and you very likely have ideas about how to do it again better next time.
     

  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
     What you’re doing is just a draft, it doesn’t have to be perfect, it never will be, even after it’s done.
     
  3. There is no editing stage.
     Painting has no editing, if you make a mistake YOU START AGAIN. Performing music has no editing, if you make a mistake you keep going and hope the audience didn’t notice. And Pottery has no editing, if it comes out of the kiln and you don’t like it, smash it to pieces and start again.
     This principle models the way the world actually works. When you release something into the world, be it a book or a program language, you’ve lost control of it, in a very big way.
     Learn to accept this. Don’t tweak what you’ve got, make another one.
     
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
     
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
     
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
     
  7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
     
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
     
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
     
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
      
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
      
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
      
  13. Done is the engine of more.
      
• The Cult of Done Manifesto. The Cult of Done Manifesto is a special… | by Bre Pettis | Medium
  
  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
     
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
     
  3. There is no editing stage.
     
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
     
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
     
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
     
  7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
     
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
     
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
     
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
      
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
      
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
      
  13. Done is the engine of more.
      
• Kio Stark
  

Make it work: complicated
Make it pretty, start using it: complex

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How to handle external and internal interruptions, and get the most of your energies (peak energy time)

1. Actively learn from your mistakes.
   Create a Learn Log for yourself. Start using it
   
   • In Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell, the author explains the value of actively learning from mistakes.
     How, whenever something doesn’t go as planned, you should write down what happened (ie. the failure or shortcoming), what you learned from it, and how you can do things better next time. Especially if you’ve made the same mistake two or more times as it means you haven’t learned from it yet.
     
     • Learn Log:
       
       • What I ideally wanted to happen;
         
       • What actually happened;
         
       • Why I think it didn’t go as planned;
         
       • What I will do differently next time.
         
2. Simplify the things you do.
   Recognize the complexities around you. Remove the superfluous so as to improve the significant
   
3. Set different goals depending on your desires.
   Set habit goals based on the lifestyle you yearn for. Set achievement goals for those things you want to accomplish once
   
   • Habit goals
     Habit goals are those goals that repeat. They are ones you want to become a habit. To become part of your lifestyle. For example, goals like read two books a month or run five miles a week are habit goals. They repeat and don’t have a clear endpoint. You just keep going until it feels like they’re part of who you are.
     
   • Achievement goals
     Achievements goals are those with a set destination. They are goals that are generally one-offs. You do them once and are done. For example, goals like read two books by February 1st or run a marathon by October 15th are achievement goals. They have a deadline. Once the deadline passes, the goal is complete. You either achieved it or you didn’t. This understanding of the two types has helped me set better goals for myself. It has helped me decide which goals I want to be part of my lifestyle and which I simply want to do once.
     
4. Erect constraints to better define your focus.
   Establish constraints. Decide what isn’t worthy of your time so that you can focus on what is.