Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

To embrace slow productivity, in other words, is to reorient your work to be a source of meaning instead of overwhelm, while still maintaining the ability to produce valuable output.

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.

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.

I want to rescue knowledge work from its increasingly untenable freneticism and rebuild it into something more sustainable and humane, enabling you to create things you’re proud of without requiring you to grind yourself down along the way.