Stop treating knowledge work as manual work. Instead of measuring success by irrelevant or arbitrary metrics, ask yourself, Did I contribute today?

Did you advance the conversation? Did you solve a problem? Did you come up with a good idea? Did you help a colleague or a client?

Redefining Your Productivity

Most people inherit their definition of productivity without realizing it.

They think it’s about working faster. Doing more. Checking all the boxes.

But true productivity is personal. It has to match your values, goals, and season of life.

Here’s a simple framework to help you define what it actually looks like for you:

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He suggests we need to fundamentally reconsider what we’re measuring. It’s not about simply rejecting productivity gains but capturing them “as genuine improvements to human flourishing instead of feeding them back into an endless cycle of escalation”. This might mean measuring ‘time affluence over output volume’ – free time as a success metric –... See more