Many people choose to work on things with little impact even when presented with more impactful options. If you made even just a 5% improvement in how you select what to work on and you keep doing that every day, the compounding effect (one of the other points in the article) adds up over time.
I do wholeheartedly agree with your point of knowing when to quit. Need to know when to let go.
Re:Sam Altman's Blog on Productivity
by chiefalchemist on Sunday February 18, 2024 @10:43AM
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In terms of quitting and/or level of confidence in decision making, I'd recommend Annie Duke's "Thinking in Bets" and "Quit".
Coincidentally (?), Duke's "Quit" discusses the importance of having a "board of directors" you can go to get objective and critical feedback from. Often, this could be peers / team, but in a work setting - which we often have little control - the quality is going to depend on culture.
Truth Seeking > Group Thinking
https://www.annieduke.com/books/
p.s. I recently picked up "How to Decide" but haven't read it yet. At this point I hesitate to recommend it, but given the other two I'm very optimistic.
After all, it's very hard to predict the future.