Most of the productivity discourse seems to be about top-down planning

Most how we think and talk about project management is in that paradigm too

My focus is on bottom up project management:

Breaking things down into ever smaller pieces - then exploring how they fit together
I find that when folks try to organize big projects in @RoamResearch their first instinct is to try to use kanban boards and lots of pages to approach things in this top down way

The real connective tissue of big projects is the block reference though. https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1362727059689070601?s=20
Do less. Accomplish more.
If you're going to do that - you very often need to think from first principles.

Get skeptical of conventional requirements.

What is really the fundamental need?

What REALLY delivers the most value?

What constraints are self imposed, simply because you didn't question them?
The search for Pareto Efficiency was for a long time the gospel of @tferriss

Some of the best work on this is inside the Four Hour Chef.

A bit ironic - but in order to package the teaching effectively, he taught the meta alongside a practical example

Result was a huge book!
So much of my personal need for @RoamResearch as a user was because I was trying to apply DSSS to EVERYTHING I needed to learn to build the company

Engineering, Design, Hiring, Marketing, Fundraising, Community Building, Fundraising, and on and on and on https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1263959274528452608
Parkinson's Law: The amount of work will expand to fill the time you allot to it.

Pareto Principle: 80% of the output comes for 20% of the inputs.

The 4 hour work week is low key the first mainstream book about modular thinking - and it's effin DEEP.

https://twitter.com/Post_Apathy/status/1363647670766698497?s=20
Science is not a set of facts passed down from great minds before us - it is the search for GOOD Explanations - and a way to test how good they are

@Roamresearch is a tool to help you DO SCIENCE on your life https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1200647376152731648
https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1299475748097384448?s=20
Isn’t that design more than PM?

At the frontier are the same https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1363665813895450624
Great example of Modular learning with Guitar.

Can’t wait to have these rigs as blocks in Roam
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