Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

My goal in this chapter is to persuade you not to give up on this aspirational vision of engineered simplicity.

AVOID TASK ENGINES

SIMULATED PULL, PART 2: INTAKE PROCEDURE

Furthermore, as we just established, the dynamics of cognitive labor are different from those of physical labor.

As Tomalin emphasizes, it was Austen’s ability to “abstract herself from the daily life going on around her” that allowed her to find her literary voice.

If you feel guilty about this decision, it helps to remember all of the extra hours you’ve spent checking email in the evening or working on your laptop over the weekend. Missing the occasional weekday afternoon only balances this ledger.

The second idea intertwined with Slow Food is the power of pulling from time-tested cultural innovations. There’s a temptation in activism to propose radically new ideas, as this preserves the utopian possibility of a pristine solution. Petrini recognized, however, that when it came to presenting an appealing alternative to fast food, he would be w

The cure isn’t to be found in smarter task systems, but instead in a return to something simpler,

We move now from multiyear plans to rethinking how you organize your work for the next few months.