“Productivity advice promises the ability to extend the capacity of an hour to encompass more work, more production , than it could otherwise hold. Our productivity hacks are like little time machines, allowing us to double up on each minute of the day. One might understandably expect this to make time feel as if it's slowing down, becoming denser,

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what Oliver Burkeman calls the efficiency trap. I read about this idea in his book Four Thousand Weeks, which is a critique of productivity culture and isn’t strictly related to AI or anything like it, but maybe you’ll see the connection too. “Rendering yourself more efficient,” he writes, “either by implementing various productivity techniques or... See more

We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else. For centuries, success—particularly in the West—has hinged on a simple dictum: “Do more, faster.” As AI commoditizes speed and output, however, this pursuit will lose its value.