In which I write a note about nothing in particular.

Adopt complex rituals wholesale

When you adopt complex rituals wholesale, you create spurious associations that conceal cause and effect in a cloud of correlations. It makes it harder for you to tell whether whatever productivity improvement you might perceive was caused by something you did, whether it was something secondary to the ritual – the thrill of novelty, for example – or whether it had entirely external, even random, causes. The promise and distraction of productivity and note-taking systems