@dylanheyl
People often confuse activity for productivity. Just because you are busy does not mean you are productive.
@s81n
I wish management understood this. I’m considered a “slow” developer…but when my work gets done it almost never needs revisited. My bug count is in the single digits vs in the hundreds that my “faster” coworkers have, and unlike my “faster” coworkers none of my projects ever had to be rewritten due to being built on delicate code (rewriting software is an enormous cost by the way). The technical debt of my projects is so minimal I have applications I’ve written over a decade ago that still run just fine and never had to be part of the yearly maintenance parade. As this video states, often times slower is better.
@yiguanas812
Personally, I specialize in burnout without accomplishment.
@SanuStevens-hk7er
I love how the most progressive scientific breakthroughs are just regressing back to doing things the way our ancestors did them…
@hoykoya3382
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. - Alan Watts
@SoulHero7
This is exactly what I've been doing since I was a kid, and I was treated like a slow minded idiot for doing it despite me having the most consistient and high quality results versus my peers. Thank you for proving that my childhood self had it right the whole time.
@πηγιοπατουχακη
The fact that a computer person advocates for doing fewer quality things at a natural pace is fascinating. Thank you sir for rescuing our humanity.
@arkaprovobhattacharjee8691
My experience says it's a tricky point "Obsess over quality." Be very cautious. When you're doing something for the first time, aim to complete it or finish it. Once that's done, if you have time, space, or fewer things to do, then embrace the obsession with quality. Otherwise, it will have the opposite effect.
@CharlieMacklin1
I tried one 24 hour day with 0 screen time and it made a huge difference! I realize not everyone can do this but, if you can pick a day to do it, do it! Screen time is draining our energy
@007feck
A tip from me: ”Learn strategic negligence” If I have 60 hours work a week, I will prioritise, and neglect the stuff at the bottom. So ok I couldn’t do everything- but all the important stuff is done well. Learn and know what you can get away with doing a ‘quick and dirty’ version, but keep your best quality for the high value / high profile tasks, that everyone will see.
@uikmnhj4me
This is how I excelled in high school. I knew changing subjects every hour wasn’t good for deep learning, and since I homeschooled I had the flexibility to do only one subject each day. I would accomplish a week or two’s worth of that subject that day, and since I was in the zone it made it so much easier to retain what I was learning. I still finished the school year with as many credits as my public schooled peers, but overall I had a much better experience than I would have given my learning style.
@jkeayc5749
I have left and lost so many jobs, and what I tried to make a career once, because I naturally followed the 3 principals outlined in this video. The one that NO employer will allow is working at a "natural pace" ! I have burned out and broken my body to work at the pace they deemed acceptable because some other idiot raised the bar by doing it faster. Or the guy that had been doing it longer was faster. If you're not as fast as them after learning the job in a couple weeks, you're done, or scolded until you rage quit because you can't stand being nagged by supervisors or customers. Nobody cares about quality. They just want it done NOW! Employers, from my experience, will always put their bottom line above your mental health!
@TomWilkes-z5n
Good lessons but this doesn’t work when your employer expects you to wear 2 or even 3 hats at once. I encountered a terrible work culture at my last company, and became a victim of serious stress and burnout. I quit before I dropped dead on my desk. Decided to go on a sabbatical to recover from the torture, and the sabbatical eventually turned into an early retirement at 44, because I had fulfilled all my financial goals by then, and realized that what I had achieved was quite enough. I now volunteer full time at afterschool education programs for underserved kids. This for me is a productive life.
@33Jenesis
I wasn’t seeking promotion at work, content to be a rank and file. Now retired, I don’t feel guilty doing nothing all day.
@nelsomario10
We have to disassociate busyness with productivity. “I not busy, I’m just doing some really important work right now” should be a common phrase.
@LouisDillard02
The concept of slow productivity aligns perfectly with what many of us feel - that constant busyness doesn't always lead to real accomplishments. Quality over quantity, always.
@xiexie89
When i feel like rushing through my life, i try to remind myself that "slow and steady wins the race" 😊
@HotelSoapBand
This video needs to be shown to a loooooooot of corporate teams
@TorgerVedeler
I spent many years as a college professor. Every year the university hired more administrators who pushed busywork on the faculty. Some faculty members, especially those who went into administration themselves, also bought into this idea. Serving on pointless committees and filling out forms that nobody read became the main purpose of my job. As a result tuition skyrocketed and I was actually scolded for spending time meeting with students.
@kamran945