added by Johanna · updated 2y ago
Hardly Working
- The thing is, we all know that work isn’t everything, but the way we spend our attention suggests otherwise. The constant accessibility of work creates the culture of busyness, not just with our time but also with our mind. Not only are our calendars filled with colorful event reminders, but even the spaces in between them are occupied by scattered... See more
from The Omnipresence of Work - More To That by Lawrence Yeo
Ajinkya Wadhwa and added
- The tools that are available to each of us are so powerful, so varied and so complex that even the free ones are ignored or misunderstood. We’re too busy doing work to get much done.
And so we end up with the convenient and sexy tools (like the smartphone you might be reading this on) and fail to do the few hours or days of training we might need to... See morefrom PW 4: Productivity and tools
Britt Gage added
In a setting where activity provides a proxy for productivity, the introduction of tools like email (and, later, Slack) that make it possible to visibly signal your busyness with minimal effort inevitably led to more and more of the average knowledge worker’s day being dedicated to talking about work, as fast and frantically as possible, through in
... See morefrom Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
When will we face the reality that “mouse-moving” and status-updating is not productive?