My feeds are drowning in best practices. Workflows, prompts, tool roundups, “how I use AI to 10x my…” — the volume was already exhausting before AI, and AI made it worse. Everyone has a system. Everyone has a take. The noise is relentless.
I’ve stopped reading most of it. Not because it’s all bad, but because the ratio of signal to noise has become unbearable. And the effort of sifting through it all is time I’ll never get back.
What works better: find someone who is doing remarkable things. Someone whose outcomes make you pause. Then figure out how they do it. Work backward from the result, not forward from the advice.
This is a much better use of your time. A single conversation with someone who ships great work will teach you more than a hundred posts about productivity frameworks.
And once you start looking for this in your own environment, you find the quiet ones. People who don’t post about their process. People who don’t optimize in public. They just do consistently excellent work, and nobody is writing threads about them because they’re too busy being good at what they do.