The Imperfectionist: The unproductivity challenge
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The Imperfectionist: The unproductivity challenge
The problem, of course, is that email didn’t live up to its billing as a productivity silver bullet. The quick phone call, it turns out, cannot always be replaced with a single quick message, but instead often requires dozens of ambiguous digital notes passed back and forth to replicate the interactive nature of conversation.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
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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.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The Imperfectionist: What would it mean to be done for the day?
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It can be hard to stop work at the end of the day, because the Busy Bandwagon encourages a “just one more thing” mentality. One more email. One more to-do. Many people quit only when they’re too exhausted to go on, and even so, they check email again before they go to bed.