Slow Productivity
It also posits that professional efforts should unfold at a more varied and humane pace, with hard periods counterbalanced by relaxation at many different timescales, and that a focus on impressive quality, not performative activity, should underpin everything.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Zuiker’s efforts point toward a definition of meaningful and valuable work that doesn’t require a frenetic busyness. Its magic instead becomes apparent at longer timescales, emanating from a pace that seems, in comparison with the relentless demands of high-tech pseudo-productivity, to be, for lack of a better word, almost slow.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The First Principle of Slow Productivity
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The Second Principle of Slow Productivity
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The first principle of slow productivity provides what is ostensibly professional advice. Working on fewer things can paradoxically produce more value in the long term: overload generates an untenable quantity of nonproductive overhead.