What Are Your Favorite Anti-Shortcuts?

Time-saving hacks are great. But it’s just as important to know when to take a ‘longcut’ — the longer and more difficult path.

Herbert Lui
Forge
Published in
2 min readJan 18, 2021

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While I appreciate a good time-saving productivity hack, the opposite of the shortcut — what I call the longcut — doesn’t get enough credit. Typically, we think of the long way around as a…

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Herbert Lui
Forge
Writer for

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd