[marniewebb]

I get this worry. I didn’t read it this way though. I read it as being more about being conscious in choosing how to spend you time and not assuming that productivity leads to open amounts of person or quality time.

I am lucky; I love the work I do and there is an overlap with what I do as a “hobby.” The place I find myself in this trap is that often the places I am most “productive” are not the places I can do the highest value work, which tends to be slower and harder.

[Claude_Shannon]

I reread what I wrote and I spoke to rashly; I apologise for that, especially the latest fragment.

But still I can't shake that feeling that perhaps what this does is just teaching yourself to be content with mediocrity and not in the good sense.

[8note]

Optimizing yourself into answering emails instead of building stuff is pigeonholing yourself into mediocrity.

Being more productive does not necessarily make you better at things, and the article really argues that increasing your productivity on the wrong things negatively impacts your productivity on the right things.