Productivity Hacks

In last two decades a lot of productivity related software apps, books, and articles have been published, they all tell you about cool hacks to shore up productivity, we have seen techniques from zettelkasten to knowledge management systems to time management schemes.

They do not tell one thing however

You still need to do the hard-work to get things done. These auxiliary systems will not solve that problem, the hard thinking for the content of your email, newsletters, your talk at conference, the chapters of your book, paragraphs of your next blog post.

There is a disconnect between the consumers and producers of the productivity content, consumers think it will do the work too. It would be good if every such book or article has a preface, letting readers level set the expectations