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Slow Productivity
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- Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are ... See more
from Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
A slower approach to work is not only feasible, but is likely superior to the ad hoc pseudo-productivity that dictates the professional lives of so many today.
from Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
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The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.
from It’s Time to Embrace Slow Productivity by newyorker.com
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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 bac
... See morefrom The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down by Cal Newport
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