Productivity

“I think that we believe that people want to be more productive, but they don't. I think more people want to spend time than save time.”

“People aren't talking about labor offset nearly as much anymore, because we're just not seeing the evidence of that happening, but they are talking about productivity”

“It's not 10 X. It's more than a hundred X productivity with an AI native developer working on software. We've had over a hundred commits in a day building our software. We have a different demo every two to three days. I never had that before.”

“We found that there's not a lot of correlation between [10288] Mike Krieger: Like the person who's using the most tokens and like the person that I like, it's an interesting thought. I just made you at your companies like write down your 10 most productive peo…”

“There was a study that if you take an employee and put them within, I think, 20 feet of the worst performing person at that company, that person's productivity will drop by about 15% to 20%. And if you put them next to the highest performing person at that com…”

“My just fundamental point is like, we cannot assume that the goal is more productivity for everyone. There are fields and people where it is, but this technology is being designed by people who think that, and I think that could be its undoing.”

“Even if you listen to the top coders and the top developers, they say increase in productivity is like two X, three X, and so most companies, at least in the technology world, you're not you're not limited by the you're not limited in terms of what you're able…”

“And similar to when computers were introduced, productivity increased. Not initially, productivity actually went down. And you need to do diffusion in the economy to pick it up again. We might see something like that with AGI more broadly, and starts with soft…”

“You basically have this, like, war of attrition Where you have all these people making more, and then everyone's like, on the other side, like, making less, and the net impact of it is zero, right?”

“So if you can be more productive than somebody else for a year, you might end up three years ahead of them, you know, as that compounds out over your first couple of years of business.”

“And so I feel like when we use technology to free up time, we're just going to do more work, you know, in different ways with that time. I don't think that everyone's just going to be sitting around like Wally, you know, watching the videos on our hovercraft t…”

“I think the real question in the next five years is we've got to produce enough products that are creating great value, which I'm very confident of, right, by the way, in healthcare and education, in, Ah, in productivity. So there's many, many domains, but tha…”

“If productivity for the next decade or so was about two and a half to three and a half percent per year, we could achieve substantial reductions in this key ratio Of debt to GDP.”

“Usually, usually it happens in greater amounts, but it takes longer periods of time, and takes slower than you think it would happen.”

“There's great Studies that show that your productivity increases by about 15% if you sit in a 25 square foot radius of another, of a high performer, and it decreases by about 30% if you sit next to a underperformer.”

“One of the things that I've seen very consistently in terms of being one of the biggest growth drivers at companies I've worked at, it's having highly tenured reps. Those reps are the ones that tend to have, in my experience, Tend to have the highest in rep pr…”

“The most successful retailer on the planet, five times the productivity of any of its closest peers.”

“So if you have a field sales organization and you have 10 reps and the productivity is 600 grand, you better not be hiring. You need to get that productivity, and until such time as either you get that productivity up, or at least can look at the data and see …”

“That push for productivity and efficiency it's a neat concept, but it doesn't work for most people. That's why you, that's why people are hunting for apps all the time. It's like, well, I need this new app to manage my productivity. It's like, no, maybe you're…”

“What's efficient is if at the end of whatever you did, you feel like you have more energy, like you're stoked, like, oh, I can't wait to do this again tomorrow. That that's efficiency is that you've actually used the least amount of energy to get something don…”

“As long as we're using technology, AI, and we direct it at productivity, which is important, and while there may be new jobs created in the medium to long term, usually disruption in the short to medium term, Starts to let even more people go.”

“There is no moat in productivity. Avoid it if you can.”

“So now I run around in the firm and just, hello guys, how exactly are you going to improve your productivity by 20% over the next 12 months?”

“Presence in an office is not any proxy for productivity.”

“But for the human operating system, downtime is not a bug, it's a feature. So when we recognize that, we realize that productivity and well-being are on the same side of the ledger.”

“When a new technology is introduced, let's say the PC, right, with, you know, a graphical user interface, the mouse, et cetera, right, in the mid-nineties, how long did it take to have a measurable effect on productivity, you know, which is the amount of wealt…”

“My optimistic expectation is productivity goes up across the world, across the board. UBI comes into play. UBI brings some kind of equanimity across the world.”

“Hours as a proxy for getting work done is totally meaningless.”

“If you put in ways that you have to do certain things, you know, put in constraints for the things that you need to do, and then you're going to do that. Without that, when you're on your own, when you're an entrepreneur, I was a great, like, I think I was a r…”

“Productivity is like the most tempting form of procrastination because you can tell yourself, oh yes, I'm You know, organizing my notes and my files and my workspace and lining up all the pencils. But if that stuff is not moving forward, your priorities, your …”

“As you keep growing the team to be able to achieve higher and higher growth goals, your productivity falls down very steeply.”

“And now that it's easier to move, this has all become more intense, and I think it will make an enormous positive difference for productivity and quality of governance, even within this country”

“The most beautiful thing about sending someone an email at five in the morning they don't respond. There is not that rabid fire. There's not that jab, jab. You send an email to someone, they write back, they do this, they do that. As you said, there is a sense…”

“Sometimes when you have a young company, it won't, a young person may not have decided what they want to do in their lives completely. All of a sudden you get a developer that wants to be a project manager. I've had an accountant who wants to be UX designer. I…”

“To-do lists turns out most people use, the way they use to-do lists is completely destroying their productivity.”

“I think changing how people think is the most durable asset that you can create. Because when people change how they think, They then produce in so many areas and so many domains. It's the ultimate force multiplier.”

“I mean, we basically hired more people and we didn't really become more productive. We actually became less productive because we didn't really have the structure in place to actually make people productive.”

“I'm never worried about productivity on a daily basis. I'm worried about the aggregation of days. Like, any given day, I'm super fortunate. I don't have to be productive, but if I'm not productive for a series of days, that's a much different problem, but it c…”

“I believe that, that it makes sense to have an unconditional basic income floor. So we have, you know, a floor that operates underneath this entire economy. Everyone is earning income on top of that floor, and the floor is rising so that it's indexed to produc…”

“I think we're recognizing that we've, as a society, we've over-indexed on defining success in terms of productivity, and in reality, our health and our happiness, it's not directly proportionate to how productive we are.”

“In the money condition, it went up by about six percent on the first day, went down by 12% the next day. It actually backfired and went slightly up toward the control condition on the next two days, not catching up, though, to the control condition. And in gen…”

“But lines of code have all these drawbacks. We can't use them as a measure of productivity.”

“That they make people less productive because you're so much more likely to be interrupted, and with each interruption, it takes you twice as long to complete your task. And people just psychologically feel kind of invaded because when you feel like you can be…”

“The productivity, I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees, if you don't make an effort, because it's sort of one of these, like, connections between nodes. Every pair of people adds communication overhead. And so if you don't start thinki…”