Oliver Burkeman experienced a cycle of adopting new productivity systems, apps, and notebooks without achieving effortless productivity.

“so you get well in my experience anyway don't about yours you you get to this place where you often feel very nearly like you're you're there right you feel like it might only be a month or two of really disciplined work before you're going to be at the the sunlit Uplands of uh effortless productivity but instead you end up sort of making fresh starts every you know introducing a new system downloading a new app buying a new notebook every uh every every month or or two”