Why Efforts are Liberating

Thinking of your efforts as “efforts”—and not projects—is liberating and empowering because:

• The definition is clear
  • Efforts require some sort of effort. When you tag a note as an effort, you are letting yourself know that some sort of effort is intended.
• The definition is not too clear
  • Efforts have linguistic wiggle room. Terms like “projects” are too narrow in scope to define the breadth of what an effort can be. This ambiguity is a feature, not a bug.

For endeavors of an unclear scale, “efforts” allow ideas to breath, while “projects” smother creativity and development by forcing too much structure too early.

Learn more about efforts:

• The big differences between efforts and projects
• How ideas and efforts play nicely together
• A deeper dive into how ACE works