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You’re doing better than you think. Here’s why. - Ozan Varol
Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Storoni, a Cambridge-trained eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, reminds readers that humans are not machines. In fact, she argues against the “linear, continuous, assembly line configuration of work” that the industrial revolution ushered in. In this digital age, she says, human efficiency should “no longer be defined by the quantity of outpu... See more
Madeleine Aggeler • Help! It Turns Out Breaks Make You More Productive
or some people, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve arrived home at night and am at a loss as to what I actually got done that day, despite the fact that I worked all day.
And I also can’t tell you how often I’ve had a huge, highly-structured todo list in front of me with 100 things on it and I stare at it and am paralyzed into inaction (or, mo... See more
And I also can’t tell you how often I’ve had a huge, highly-structured todo list in front of me with 100 things on it and I stare at it and am paralyzed into inaction (or, mo... See more