Quotes About Efficiency

those familiar with the rigors of such activities, the limit expands to something like four hours, but rarely more.

Deep Work Helps You Quickly Learn Hard Things

schedule in advance the time you spend on low-quality leisure.

What percentage of my time should be spent on shallow work? This strategy suggests that you ask it.

deep work. If you haven't mastered this foundational skill, you'll struggle to learn hard things or produce at an elite level.

When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.

Knuth deploys what I call the monastic philosophy of deep work scheduling. This philosophy attempts to maximize deep efforts by eliminating or radically minimizing shallow obligations. Practitioners of the monastic philosophy tend to have a well-defined and highly valued professional goal that they're pursuing, and the bulk of their professional success comes from doing this one thing exceptionally well.

Let's assume you're a knowledge worker, which is a field without a clear training philosophy. If you can figure out how to integrate deliberate practice into your own life, you have the possibility of blowing past your peers in your value, as you'll likely be alone in your dedication to systematically getting better. That is, deliberate practice might provide the key to quickly becoming so good they can't ignore you.

During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he'll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. "It sometimes confuses my colleagues," he told me. "They say, 'You're not out of office, I see you in your office right now!'" But to Grant, it's important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.

Better technique trumps more effort.

Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

DeFi offers considerable potential for solving the following five key problems associated with centralized finance: centralized control, limited access, inefficiency, lack of inoperability, and opacity.

Because a happy worker is a more productive worker?

knowledge is power, and power not properly utilised is a wasted resource

Work smarter, not harder

What are some of the things your last employer could have done to be more successful? Does the applicant offer a long list of items and appear to feel he could have run things better than management did? Are his comments constructive or angry? There is a follow-up:

of. By really getting into your work, the nonessential stuff drops away.

These days, you've gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

Design for 80 percent and build separate paths for exceptions. Eliminate or reduce the impact of low-value steps. Simplify complex steps. Combine simple steps. Work to design quality into the work, rather than inspect step outputs after the fact. Use parallel paths wherever possible. Broaden job content and empower employees. Don't design things to the task level unless the risk of variation is unacceptable and you're willing to invest in testing prior to implementation.

A process is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone.

PROCESS is a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-valued milestone so it Can be performed effectively and efficiently Can be managed effectively Offers the potential for a competitive advantage

An organization is only as effective as its processes.

a construct for organizing value-adding work to achieve a business-value milestone in a way that meets three specific criteria: 1. Effective and efficient performance 2. Effective management 3. Competitive advantage