Ease

This is from Julian Simpson’s Cartoon Gravity journal:

[Ollivier] Pourriol talks about ease a lot, the idea that when you’re doing something that you’re good at or that you enjoy, less effort is required. Conversely, if you find yourself putting a lot of unpleasant effort in, you may not be doing what you should be doing. Obviously effort is a subjective idea, because even things we love doing don’t always feel easy, so we need to be conscious of the difference between being challenged and essentially wasting energy.

It’s an example of “do what you like,” one of the genuine escape plans in my book. Simpson and Pourriol make it clear that the ethic can be used at a project-level as well.

Simpson’s whole post is worth a read, actually. It’s not very long and contains a productivity hack he describes as “irritatingly simple but incredibly effective.”

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