Sublime

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.

I don’t work after five thirty p.m. I call this commitment fixed-schedule productivity, as I fix the firm goal of not working past a certain time, then work backward to find productivity strategies that allow me to satisfy this declaration.

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.

He made a rule that he would wake up and start working by five thirty every morning. He would then work until seven thirty, make breakfast, and go to work already done with his dissertation obligations for the day. Pleased by early progress, he soon pushed his wake-up time to four forty-five to squeeze out even more morning depth.