337 / Productivity’s empty promise
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337 / Productivity’s empty promise
The problem with ‘productivity’ is that it is concerned with managing and increasing output: producing widgets, quarterly reports, the next release of the software, yet another research report, and meanwhile, always aspiring to do more with less. Less waste, less idle time on the assembly line, and fewer workers. The end game is to speed up the mac... See more
Stowe Boyd • The Problem of Productivity
It’s a little depressing that these days we mainly use computers to consume fast and react fast. Task management turns us into more productive human machines. Rather conveniently for managers, human machines have higher predictability and lower inherent value – they’re easy to automate, replace, and erase.
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
Productivity is important, but it’s just on... See more
pketh • Productivity vs Insight, Tools for Reflection, and Other Questions Answered
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.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
I think productivity is really a race to the bottom um it's I think that the that a lot has been said about how humans uh or machines are trying to be more human but I think less has been said about how humans have for decades uh been trained to be machines
and we have a lot of unlearning to do because if we focus on efficiency and optimization and
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