1. Productivity is a system, not a sequence. Many things are interrelated and motivation is often generated by simple completion of tasks.
2. Motivation without other parts of that system may be insufficient to be productive.
Personally, I've found lack of productivity or motivation to come from unclear or disorganized states, and systems like GTD go a long way to clear that up. When you frame this inflammatory article in terms of discipline just being systems like GTD or just lists that work, it makes some sense.
But mostly, it says a lot of words that seem to be angry at abstract concepts.
But there are two great insights here:
1. Productivity is a system, not a sequence. Many things are interrelated and motivation is often generated by simple completion of tasks.
2. Motivation without other parts of that system may be insufficient to be productive.
Personally, I've found lack of productivity or motivation to come from unclear or disorganized states, and systems like GTD go a long way to clear that up. When you frame this inflammatory article in terms of discipline just being systems like GTD or just lists that work, it makes some sense.
But mostly, it says a lot of words that seem to be angry at abstract concepts.