## Highlights **Efficiency is not synonymous with the soulless pursuit of productivity.** If anything, efficiency is a little bit lazy — better thought of as the opposite of "methodical." It's a focus on high ROI activities. It's stopping at "minimum viable product" — without forgetting that _viability_ is a key word there, and excellence is sometimes critical. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hctye7s2vaps5g3s3hxhhcvq)) ^vykg2k Realistically though, if I'm doing a bunch of quick research into a topic, I will plop a link down and some quick takeaways. Spinning all of these things out preemptively into atomic notes is too much friction, so I often don't. And that’s okay. The point is to make information I need accessible when I need it, as easily as possible. The main thing is just to try not to get unnecessarily bogged down. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hctyjnab17xqe4z252q8ndye)) **If the things that you care about are easily searched on the internet, they might not be the best candidates for taking notes about.** Most things I take notes about were things that I had trouble easily finding when I searched, like for example that time I spent like a whole day tracking down issues with my website. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hctypx8q8hcwwkjm0pwf2q0k)) ^54ogqh I’m a big believer in learning things before you need them, when they don’t feel relevant and aren’t yet important. I obsessively read about a topic before I get started on it, even if it's stuff I probably won't need — better to know what's even possible, because otherwise I won't know the option exists when I'm faced with a problem it could solve. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hctysph2b5h9dh3fa18we3f2)) I try to make it a point to avoid writing "generic" articles, or rehash old ideas just for the sake of producing content. My philosophy of writing is that I make a real effort to only write things that can only be written by me; things that are unique to my perspective, or at the very least the things that no one else seems to be saying. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hctys36n9g6wwnk9jsnrbv61)) ^ei7ppx