Slow productivity supports legacy-building accomplishments but allows them to unfold at a more human speed.

Give yourself enough time to produce something great, but not unlimited time. Focus on creating something good enough to catch the attention of those whose taste you care about, but relieve yourself of the need to forge a masterpiece. Progress is what matters. Not perfection.

She now works, on average, twenty hours a week and takes off two full months each year for vacation.

Concrete productivity metrics of the type that shaped the industrial sector will never properly fit in the more amorphous knowledge work setting.

In honor of its inspiration, Fleming named his ramshackle estate Goldeneye.

Her nature-inspired abstractions were acclaimed, and O’Keeffe became a celebrity in the art world. The Lake George years are considered to be the most prolific period of her career.

Slow Food wasn’t looking backward to escape the present, but instead to find ideas to help reshape the future.

We suffer from overly ambitious timelines and poorly managed workloads due to a fundamental uneasiness with ever stepping back from the numbing exhaustion of jittery busyness.

Once you get used to accomplishing a specific type of task at the same times on the same days, the overhead required for their execution plummets.