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It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity
Breaking from the Pace of the Net
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Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are ... See more
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Adopt a “fixed volume” approach to productivity.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
In the absence of more sophisticated measures of effectiveness, we also gravitate away from deeper efforts toward shallower, more concrete tasks that can be more easily checked off a to-do list. Long work sessions that don’t immediately produce obvious contrails of effort become a source of anxiety—it’s safer to chime in on email threads and “jump
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