GTD -- Get Things Done GTRTD -- Get The Right Things Done [[Focus on what matters most]] 从对效率的盲目追求到价值判断 人的最终价值在于时间和经历的独一性，有限性，和不可重复性 --- For years, productivity culture sold us on _getting things done_. Clear your inbox. Check-off your tasks. The implicit promise: if you could just move faster, execute better, optimize harder, you'd finally feel accomplished. In fact most people do struggle with Getting Things Done (GTD) at school or work -- meeting deadlines, fullfilling requirements, checking boxes. However, the real constraint to one's performance isn't time management or productivity systems. It's value judgment. A smaller few care about Getting the Right Things Done (GTRTD), asking what tasks are worth doing. They apply deliberate value judgement to anything activity of their life -- making sure there is meaning and purpose between all of their actions. The question isn't "How do I do more?" It's "What's worth doing at all?" Your every action is a vote to what you believe is worth doing in your finite life. This is why human time is fundamentally different from machine time. A computer or robot can run the same calculation and perform the same action infinite times; You only have this one life -- its uniqueness, finitude, and irrepeateability is what makes it valuable. Life is short -- focus on what matters instead of diversification. Not being able to focus on things that matter is the biggest tragedy of life. > The power law is not just important to investors; rather, it's important to everybody because everybody is an investor. ... When you choose a career, you act on your belief that the kind of work you do will be valuable decades from now. The most common answer to the question of future value is a diversified portfolio: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” everyone has been told. As we said, even the best venture investors have a portfolio, but investors who understand the power law make as few investments as possible. The kind of portfolio thinking embraced by both folk wisdom and financial convention, by contrast, regards diversified betting as a source of strength. The more you dabble, the more you are supposed to have hedged against the uncertainty of the future. But life is not a portfolio: not for a startup founder, and not for any individual. An entrepreneur cannot “diversify” herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well. Less obvious but just as important, an individual cannot diversify his own life by keeping dozens of equally possible careers in ready reserve. Getting the right things done requires something productivity systems can't give you: the courage to say no to good opportunities because they're not the _right_ opportunities. The wisdom to recognize that some inefficiency—time spent thinking, wandering, being—isn't waste. It's how you figure out what matters. Your life's value isn't measured in tasks completed. It's measured in whether you spent your finite, unrepeatable hours on things that were actually worth your time.