Wednesday, May 13, 2026

• 12:46 what underscores the pervasive ‘productivity’ culture (how did it begin?) that dominates so much of the corporate world. It feels like there is now an ideological need for something different, can we work to other metrics? like scrappy experimentation? How could education/academic institutions set people up for this? Can we begin to value the messy workings/thinking of the creative process equally to it’s output? (This is not the most coherent thought, but I have recently just become very irritated by seeing so many people wanting to ‘optimise’ their workflows, productivity and thinking with these second-brain LLM systems and I can’t really understand why - not everything needs to be optimised! while I think the integration of LLMs into a personal knowledge management could be interesting, I think we need to be more conscious of the implementations and why we are doing it in the first place)