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Barbell — The Only Productivity System You Need To Thrive In An Unpredictable World
7 min readFeb 21, 2022
Imagine the perfect productivity system that can ever exist. This system would have the following nine characteristics:
- Effortless input, allowing you to enter new information directly before you even think about it twice
- Reliable retrieval, you receive the information when you need it. No need to do extra checking
- Invisible. The best systems are silently running, like your internet, water, heat, electricity, and phone.
- Zero overhead, no need to visit the system more than just retrieve information. Forget all you learned about weekly reviews, monthly checkups, yearly planning, etc.
- Easy to implement. allowing you to simply become the best version of yourself in less than one session.
- Laughable simplicity, mainly due to zero overhead and invisibility. The less you think about the system, the more it works.
- Antifragile, the more chaos and stress in your environment, the more powerful your system becomes. Thus, you can safely seek novel and risky experiences to gain luck while being reliable.
- Action-oriented, you can dedicate 100% attention to the activities in front of you while the system takes care of itself