🌳 intuitive productivity

“Creativity requires connecting the dots, and connecting the dots requires allowing time for my subconscious to consolidate my ideas and make associations. This means that, from time to time, I need to just stare out the window... This doesn’t feel productive, even though it is.” Ozan Varol

crystalhen

The antidote to burnout and the existential inquiry it brings seems to be doing things that don’t scale in pursuit of things that can’t scale. It becomes exciting not to see what you can do without limits, but to see what you can do with them.

Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale

‘visible activity’ heuristic

But over my two decades of experience, I have found that slowly curating and cultivating a smaller, highly engaged audience who are invested in their journey leads to greater satisfaction (and long-term profitability).

André Chaperon

System 1 allows us to conserve mental energy when dealing with familiar patterns, and to react efficiently when faced with a situation that demands action rather than thought (you don’t want to be in a methodical frame of mind when deciding how to handle the information that a car is hurtling towards you). Still, most of us identify more closely wi... See more

Caragh Medlicott • How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress

I aspire to Isak Dinesen’s way: work a little every day, without hope and without despair. What a way to live! To make! To be!

Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About

yes yes yes, without constant despair

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely.

Jason Fried • Remote

The vita contemplativa is not a matter of passive affirmation and being open to whatever happens. Instead, it offers resistance to crowding, intrusive stimuli.

🌳 intuitive productivity

Anu Atluru • Pursuits That Can’t Scale

André Chaperon

Caragh Medlicott • How “fast” and “slow” thinking can help us handle technostress

Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About

Jason Fried • Remote

Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society

Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Fuck the Cult of Productivity