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by lp4vn 915 days ago
>Mine too. Any ideas why productivity has slowed down so much? Is this a software online observation, or more of a wider pattern

It's a wider pattern in fact:

"The productivity paradox, also referred to as the Solow paradox, could refer either to the slowdown in productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s despite rapid development in the field of information technology (IT) over the same period, or to the slowdown in productivity growth in the United States and developed countries from the 2000s to 2020s; sometimes the newer slowdown is referred to as the productivity slowdown, the productivity puzzle, or the productivity paradox 2.0."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

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this compares apples to vitamins in a way -- what is possible and what is expected have changed so much in thirty years for office and information work, that reducing it to a pair of numbers seems ridiculous