How to Boost Your Productivity

"Most of this stuff is just like signaling, you want other people to know that supposedly you're an educated person now because you've memorized all this trivia," he says. "I literally do not know what the purpose of that is, I'll have it better to do it anyway." He adds: "You should just be focusing on making the process itself rewarding, because otherwise you're just going to optimize for the wrong things"