From Foraging to the Invisible Factory; or, Why Knowledge Workers Should Return to a More Natural Pace

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.

We don’t have good notions of productivity. Traditional economic productivity largely requires people working toward a singular measurable output with a transparent process. You have this input-to-output ratio and a process generating it, and you can tweak that and see what it does to the ratio. None of that works in knowledge work. So we fell