Is the "1% better every day" advice actually useful when everything is changing this fast?
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
The whole Kaizen / Atomic Habits (thank you James Clear - still one of my favorite reads) idea of small daily improvements compounding over time made a lot of sense in a stable environment. You pick a direction, you improve consistently, and over a year you're 38x better. Great. Love it
But honestly? I've been questioning whether that framing still holds when the environment itself is shifting faster than your improvements can compound.
You could be getting 1% better every day at something AI makes irrelevant next quarter. I wrote more on this on G2 2 years ago.
I mean the principle still works, but the question you have to ask changes. It's less "how do I get better at this?" and more "is this even the right thing to get better at?"
I mean for something like working out it works but in a professional environment not so much because of ... well AI.
Although maybe it works because of AI
Curious whether others have wrestled with this. Does continuous improvement still feel like a useful framework to you, or has the pace of change made it feel naive?