🇬🇧 Most productivity problems aren’t technical. They’re personal.
Summary:
In this video, I share a simple but uncomfortable truth about productivity: most blocks aren’t technical — they’re personal.
We often think we’re stuck because of complex features, decisions, or work pressure. But many times, the real issue is unresolved personal weight running in the background — guilt, unfinished conversations, or things we haven’t healed yet.
When I stopped carrying that “backup” in my life and made peace where it mattered, my mind became clearer, my sleep improved, and my work got better.
This is not a quick hack. It’s a process. But lightening that mental backpack is one of the most powerful productivity decisions you can make.
Transcript:
0:00: Most productivity problems are not technical. They are personal. We usually think we are blocked by a feature, by a hard decision, by complexity, but most of the time, and you know this, the answer is already there.
0:22: What really blocks us is the noise we carry unresolved conversations, guilt, things we should have closed, but didn’t.
0:38: A staff, we haven’t healed yet. That’s what I call a backpack. A backpack running in the background of your mind.
0:49: It’s like a big backpack with a lot of worries, worries, guiltiness, a lot of stuff that carries with you. And just like in architecture, you You can optimize performance on a noisy system.
1:06: No, you can’t do it. I noticed this when I stopped carrying backups in my life. No double stories, not like, okay, I have this personality when I talk with my partner with a friend, and then the whole opposite when I talk to a close friend or want to talk to somebody else.
1:33: No, not our stories. No, I’m finished. Apologies. Okay, you didn’t say the apology before the sun goes down. No, I mean, you have to do it in the correct way.
1:49: No emotional debt, like technical debt, but no emotional debt. Don’t carry that. With that, But I started to sleep better, think clearer, working faster.
2:07: The most important thing I started to work happy. You know, this is my own. I can’t smile like this because I’m not carrying backpacks, you know, I’m not carrying guilty and not carrying wariness with me.
2:25: It’s a process, I know. So, if you came here looking for a productivity tip, here’s the real one, lighting the backpack.
2:36: Make peace with yourself, with your family, with your friends, with your core workers. Not everything in life is web development, but everything affects how you work.
