Maximize Your Productivity Forever By Abandoning Your ToDo List For A Leverage List

You can do so much more with leverage.

I’ve known for years that leverage is the key. The leverage of people, technology, and financial assets to produce results without spending additional energy, time, or effort. But I never thought about how that could apply directly to my daily tasks.

When I saw a Tweet from George Mack, I thought, WTF didn’t I think of this.

Naval Ravikant defines three broad classes of leverage.

You don’t have leverage when your input and outputs are highly connected.

You don’t gain leverage by renting your time. “A leveraged worker can out-produce a non-leveraged worker by a factor of one thousand or ten thousand,” writes Naval.

There are three broad categories to leverage:

1/ The leverage of labor.

When other humans work for you, you get their time as a capacity of work or outputs.

But this is the worst form of leverage as leveraging people is messy. It requires excellent leadership skills.

2/ The leverage of money.