You Don’t Need a Perfect Productivity System.

You just need these four things

The Electronic Pen
4 min readOct 8, 2024

There are a thousand videos, articles, people, books, out there, telling you how to build the perfect productivity system.

Sometimes it involves dozens of apps all intricately and neatly tied together, other times it has complex decision matrixes, and more often than not there’s a hundred-dollar course somewhere in there.

Now, I’m not saying that there is no such thing as a perfect productivity system — somewhere out there I’m sure someone has found the most efficient way to work and live and act and spend their time.

But here’s the thing:

It’s not an efficient use of your time to spend all your time figuring out how to use your time efficiently.

The ‘point of productivity’ is not to find the ultimate, completely streamlined, absolutely flawless system(which is different for every person, so you can’t just copy and paste what someone else has, anyways).

The ‘point’ is, quite simply, to get more things done.

Not to get more productivity apps on your phone.

So, then what?

Don’t chase the ‘perfect’ productivity system.

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