Productivity Systems
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Startup Ideas Podcast
3 statements about Productivity Systems, every show
Bloom: 'Second brain' tools create illusion of progress without actual work
“What I found in my own experience working with some of those things is that you end up moving a whole lot, but not actually making progress on things. You know, you like have this complicated productivity system, but you're not actually you know, creating prog…”
Isenberg: Over-optimizing productivity systems is unnecessary because founders know their core tasks
“I think people who over optimize on like this whole productivity system stuff, like Take it too far. You inherently know that there's like two or three things that you need to do. Just do the thing.”
Altman: People obsessed with complex productivity systems rarely move the world forward
“I think this whole, like, productivity porn thing where you have these, like, systems and, like, you know, like, these multivariable charts and three-dimensional whatever's Like, those people never seem to be the people who, like, really move the world forward…”