Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.

what we really need—more so than righteous disdain or brash new policy—is a slower conception of what it even means to be productive in the first place.

a philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles:

1. Do few things.

2. Work at a natural pace.

3. Obsess over quality.