Rania El-Ghezzaoui

We live in a culture that venerates productivity above all else.

the productivity religion is so ingrained that it’s almost impossible to imagine a different way of working

Our interfaces should facilitate prose-sculpting, meaning-architecting, memory-augmenting, and inspiration-harvesting—all grounded in sources we love and trust.

shift to a new paradigm

I believe there are two plausible scenarios for the future of knowledge work. There’s one in which as machines become more human-like in their capabilities, we paradoxically become more machine-like in our pursuit of productivity, focused on efficiency and keeping busy above all else. But there’s another where we lean into ways of working that are ... See more

the neurotic hamster in us

keeps us on a miserable hamster wheel of churning out more