The Productivity Mirage

	The Productivity Mirage(frantic.im)
	345 points by msephton 45 days ago \| 151 comments
	tl;dr: The author, once obsessed with elaborate developer tooling, recalls sitting next to "Bob," a prolific Facebook engineer who won hackathons using vanilla Sublime Text and printf debugging. The lesson: product taste and picking the right problems matter far more than optimizing your workflow or chasing the latest productivity trends.
	HN Discussion: ~Tools matter but should serve the work, not become the work itself ↑Agrees that obsessing over setup distracts from the real work of thinking and problem-solving ↑Productivity obsession is an escape from harder ambiguous product/domain problems ↑Best productivity comes from stepping away from the computer entirely ↓Tinkering with tools is just fun and doesn't need justification