Laura Hines

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

The general assumption driven by these optimization models is always that faster is better. I think there are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask that question about what those things are, I think we’ll get things terribly, terribly wrong.

We survive by naming shapes.

Lion, lightning, invoice. Commit to memory, move on.

That shorthand spares calories, keeps skin intact, and lets us cross streets without philosophizing about trucks.

The tradeoff: the moment a thing fits a label, its edges fade.

Nuance gets deleted, anomalies slip through the net, the field of possibility shrinks.

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