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Like most tech bros, I’m a little too interested in productivity and optimizing my life. I’ve even made a few of my own tools to help me stay focused and efficient. In the process of trying to find and build the best productivity tools possible, I discovered common elements among all the productivity tools I found most effective.
I call such tools elastic, because of their similarities to rubber bands. And so, elastic tools
stretch, meaning that they’re designed to allow for some leeway
snap back, i.e. after stretching they automatically go back to their intended form
don’t break, in the sense that you can never stretch them too far
Elastic tools are a marked improvement over standard tools, which typically
LW4EA: Elastic Productivity Tools
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Written by LW user Simon Berens.
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