🌳 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

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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... See more

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

Time to read, to think, to breathe.

Why I pay myself first—with my time.

What differentiates these experiences isn’t the number of hours in the day but the energy we get from the work. Energy makes time.

Mandy Brown • Energy Makes Time

More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination... See more

Reclaiming our humanity in a world obsessed with productivity requires a degree of courage and intentionality that I often doubt I possess. It means being willing to step outside the norm, to question the assumptions that have been ingrained in us since childhood. It means cultivating a sense of mindfulness and presence, even in the middle of the... See more

Fuck the Cult of Productivity

“Those who suffer for others do more damage to humanity than those who enjoy themselves,”

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

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Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash Quality software from independent makers is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced corn syrup-laden jam from the supermarket. Industrial fruit jam is filled with cheap... See more

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What if we stopped positioning quiet quitting as a general response to the “meaninglessness of work,” and instead saw it as a more specific tactic to achieve seasonality?

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

The long tail of the internet has provided a way for sovereign creators

and businesses to ‘

niche at scale

‘ in ways not possible at any other time in history, fostering unparalleled creativity and innovation;

The quality of an audience matters;

Being tiny is mighty;

Delighting the weird is a superpower;

When you build a business, you’re building a new

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

Why I pay myself first—with my time.

Mandy Brown • Energy Makes Time

Fuck the Cult of Productivity

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

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

André Chaperon • Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans