Make money? It’s gone eventually. Be remembered? I’ll eventually be forgotten. Be REALLY remembered? I’ll be forgotten in a few thousand years. Become immortal? All entropy in the universe eventually dissipates.
What I can do though, is have a good time with the people I love.
What we'd need instead is concerted simplification. But that ain't gonna happen.
I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.
But perhaps a better title would be "Productivity Isn't (Only) About Going Faster"
Not doing something is much faster than doing it fast. Sit on your ideas, think them trough, dismiss early, or choose to move to implementations.
Productivity is impossible to define when you don’t know where you’re going.
A lot of companies and teams are finding out real fast they have zero clue where the fuck they’re trying to go or what they want to achieve. Just a bunch of people running in random directions before the funding runs out.
Pick a direction. Then go fast.