# Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap  ## About - Author: Cal Newport - Title: Ep. 251: The Efficiency Trap - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s0pITYG3z8&ab_channel=CalNewport ## Highlights I really think there's a similar thing going on with a lot of these productivity YouTube videos that you would see with a lot of product uh let's say YouTube cooking videos or something really fulfilling when you see people start with these various ingredients and they grind it and do whatever and in the end they get this finished pie or this really well uh prepared cup of coffee with the cream just right on the top it's visually very appealing but also it is cognitively appealing our brain likes to see Pieces come together into a nice hole and so it is essentially productivity cooking when you see this integration of this tool to that tool and the person shows how everything automatically populates and this syncs with that and it goes to this tool and over here I can write here and it updates over there it's like producing a pie it's good content ---