Via Negativa: The Ancient Mental Model That Cures Modern Distraction

The fastest way to improve a system isn’t adding the right thing. It’s removing the wrong one.

This is the core principle of via negativa — and it may be the most powerful mental model for focus and productivity that most people have never applied.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company was forty days from bankruptcy.Read the rest “Via Negativa: The Ancient Mental Model That Cures Modern Distraction”