27chaos comments on Productivity 101 For Beginners - LessWrong

20 Post author: peter_hurford 05 November 2014 11:04PM

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Comment author: 27chaos 07 November 2014 11:55:15PM *  2 points [-]

I like the intro to that. The four subdivisions were a smart idea, they helped make it easier to process quickly.

The "Organize" section felt a bit disorganized to me. It went into a lot of detail about emails, to do lists, and various zones. That was a lot of content to put in a mere subdivision, you might have been better off breaking it into its own post. If that option didn't seem like a good idea, you could at least have shortened the advice. Just guessing, it feels like half your word count went into this section, when it should have been closer to 1/6th based on your headers.

The "Do" section had a problem similar to this post's, though less egregious. You could probably have described the Pomodoro technique in one paragraph instead of several, or even just provided a link to Wikipedia or something like that.

The "Additional Tips" section was haphazard, though you probably already know that.

But don't let me discourage you. I liked and agreed with all of the content. A lot of my criticism here is nitpicky, I am trying to provide a lot of criticism in order to be as helpful as possible, but don't think that means I'm only seeing bad things. I liked the post a bunch despite these minor issues. Anything I failed to explicitly mention is probably something that I liked.

Also, I probably care more about word efficiency than the average reader because I did debate back in high school, and that places a premium on efficient communication because speeches are only a few minutes long.

Comment author: peter_hurford 08 November 2014 04:16:25PM 1 point [-]

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. :)