Efficiency Is the Enemy - Farnam Street
Efficiency is highly overrated; goofing off is highly underrated. Regularly scheduled sabbaths, sabbaticals vacations, breaks, aimless walks and time off are essential for top performance of any kind. The best work ethic requires a good rest ethic.
Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
The Savage Irony Of Trying To Be Productive - Oliver Burkeman
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Can't stop thinking about this Vogue piece.
We're so obsessed with optimizing every little thing that we've forgotten how to just… live. Efficiency has literally become a nightmare personality trait (you’re picturing someone rn, aren’t you?)
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Slow productivity, more than anything else, is a plea to step back from the frenzied activity of the daily grind. It’s not that these efforts are arbitrary: our anxious days include tasks and appointments that really do need to get done. But once you realize, as McPhee did, that this exhausted scrambling is often orthogonal to the activities that
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