From Productivity to Wisdom: The Super-User Divide

Chien Li-feng offers workers a reframe: the goal of this era is not merely higher productivity but greater wisdom — moving yourself toward that top one percent of super-users. Productivity answers "how fast"; wisdom answers "whether, and for whom."

問用管造 describes the same thing through K-S-A: Knowledge is what you know, Skill is what you can produce, Attitude is what you choose to become. Of the three, Attitude matters most — knowledge expires, skills get absorbed into tools, but your posture toward change compounds.

Proficient-level Use has one condition people overlook: high-quality input. Quality is not an adjective; it is the depth of your understanding of the audience, the context, and the criteria for success. Feed the same model different judgment, and the value of the output differs by an order of magnitude. That is why, with identical tools, some people get 10x and others get ten percent.

Tools set your floor. Wisdom sets your ceiling.