Efficiency vs. Effectiveness: A Deep Dive

This chapter explores the critical distinction between being efficient and being effective, highlighting the dangers of prioritizing speed over meaningful impact. The discussion also addresses workaholism and the need for thoughtful support strategies to help individuals manage their addictive behaviors and mental health issues.

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Welcome back to another in-between-isode, with one of my favorite formats: the good old-fashioned Q&A.

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Timestamps:

[00:00:00] Start.

[00:04:44] Instilling nostalgia in future children.

[00:06:29] Secret suspicions about success.

[00:09:50] Comfy clothes and commandments for my cult.

[00:13:20] Laying groundwork for large projects.

[00:15:12] The purpose of my No Book preview community.

[00:15:45] How I use and don’t use AI.

[00:18:56] My own success: because of strategies or despite them?

[00:19:25] Optimizing efficiency in the face of unknown variables.

[00:21:12] Why we should all learn how to live offline.

[00:22:35] Superb Sufism sources.