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Site title: Stop Managing Time. Start Crafting It. - Mike Vardy
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There’s something quietly radical about choosing the less common word.
Most people talk about productivity. I’ve been talking about productiveness.
That alone feels unconventional—not because it’s new, but because it runs against the grain. Productivity is familiar. Accepted. Optimized. Productiveness, by contrast, sounds almost a...
Steven Pressfield’s distinction between amateur and professional has helped many people change how they relate to their work.
In Turning Pro, the amateur waits for inspiration. The professional shows up when it’s time. Discipline replace...
Most growth problems don’t announce themselves as mindset problems.
They show up as packed calendars, endless email, and a sense that you’re always behind—even when things look successful from the outside. Revenue increases, the team grows, and the workload somehow expands to match it all. The assumption is obvious: this is what growth feels like.
We live in a how-to culture. How to be more productive, how to sleep better, how to write a book, cook a steak, raise a child, fix your calendar, declutter your inbox. The list is endless.
We chase method before meaning.
And only later—if at all—do we pause and ask: Wait… why am I doing this in the first place?
This isn’t a new ...
There’s a quote attributed to Jean-Paul Sartre that stopped me in my tracks recently:
“The coward loves systems that excuse him from responsibility.”
It’s an uncomfortable line. It’s meant to be. Sartre wasn’t critiquing productivity tools or workflows—he was diagnosing a human impulse: the desire to offload responsibility for o...
