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A Googler’s guide to getting things done

2024/8/18
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David Pierce
知名技术记者和播客主持人,专注于社会媒体、智能家居和人工智能等领域的分析和评论。
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Laura Mae Martin
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David Pierce: 本期节目探讨了生产力、屏幕时间管理、数字内容管理以及如何更有效地利用数字工具等问题。我们采访了谷歌的 Laura Mae Martin,她分享了关于如何提高生产力、重新定义生产力以及如何更有效地利用时间和精力等方面的观点。 我们还讨论了疫情对工作方式的影响,以及如何平衡工作和生活,如何更有效地利用数字工具,以及人工智能如何改变我们的工作方式等问题。 Laura Mae Martin: 我认为仅仅完成任务的数量并不是衡量生产力的唯一标准。我们需要更全面地看待生产力,关注员工的幸福感、创造力和灵感。 疫情期间,我们被迫重新思考工作方式,这促使我们更加关注员工的整体福祉。我提倡一种更整体、更可持续的工作方式,而不是那种高压的“努力文化”。 混合办公模式应该灵活,允许员工根据自己的情况选择工作时间和地点。管理者应该以身作则,鼓励员工找到最适合自己的工作方式。 我们需要有意识地管理自己的数字生活,利用应用程序的设置来减少不必要的干扰。我们可以通过制定一些小的、可实现的目标来逐步改善自己的工作习惯,例如“无科技星期二”。 人工智能可以帮助我们提高生产力,例如自动化一些任务,并提供关于我们自身生产力模式的洞察。但是,人工智能仍然需要我们来指导和控制。

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Laura Mae Martin, asesora ejecutiva de productividad de Google, argumenta que el bienestar y la productividad no son opuestos, sino que se refuerzan mutuamente. Ella cree que priorizar el bienestar conduce a una mayor productividad a largo plazo, lo que crea un ciclo sostenible. Martin desafía la cultura del ajetreo, abogando por un enfoque más holístico del trabajo.
  • Priorizar el bienestar conduce a una mayor productividad.
  • La cultura del ajetreo no es sostenible a largo plazo.
  • El bienestar y la productividad forman un ciclo positivo.

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Laura Mae Martin) is a big believer in the settings menu. Martin is Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor, and spends much of her time working with other Googlers on improving their productivity and communication systems — and one of the things she often recommends is taking a few minutes to poke through the options. “With your phone, with your email, your Slack, all these things, the features are there but we don’t take the time to dive into them,” she says. She even thinks you should maybe have to look at settings before you can use the app. “Like, you can’t get into the app unless you spend 10 minutes figuring out what it can do.”

On this episode of The Vergecast)*, *the first in our three-part miniseries about all things productivity and work, we talk to Martin about how she sees things changing. Four years after the pandemic forced us all to work from home, are we finally figuring out remote and hybrid work? Are managers realizing that butts-in-seats isn’t, and maybe was never, a good metric for productivity? And is the era of the hard-charging hustle bro finally giving way to a healthier, more holistic way of thinking about being productive? Martin sees all these things from so many perspectives, and has lots of thoughts on everything from communication styles to energy flows.

We also talk about the rise in digital productivity tools like Notion and Slack, and why email is still so important — and still so terrible. One of Martin’s jobs at Google is to consult with the teams building Workspace apps like Docs and Gmail, and she has lots of thoughts on how those product works and how they could be better. We also talk about whether AI stands to change the way we get things done, and whether it’ll help us do more or just give us more to do.

Along the way, Martin offers us lots of practical tips on how to manage our digital lives a little better. Charging your phone outside the bedroom, no-tech Tuesdays, and a couple of prettier email labels might actually go a long way. And if you have too many notes in too many places, it’s time to get a Main List going.

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