The tendency to want to solve problems with new tools
I’m finishing the next post for the Gestalt Garden.
The central topic of this post is: “why it is necessary to separate task management from project management”. In the conclusion, I wanted to use an idea that a good friend once explained to me. However, it was in casual conversation and I couldn’t take notes. So I asked him again :^)
Here is the beginning of his response:
In general—especially in companies in the industry and engineering sector—we tend (perhaps due to our technophilia) to think that with a tool we will solve a social problem.
Now let’s change the context to task management:
In general—especially in the field of personal productivity—we tend (perhaps due to our technophilia) to think that with a tool we will solve a workflow problem.
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