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Slow Productivity
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Slow Productivity

The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Portfolio, 2024 mais...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • Engaging
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

A peek inside any office reveals that knowledge workers seem inordinately busy. But are they accomplishing anything of value? Rather than accept overwhelm and burnout as inevitable, Cal Newport, a Georgetown professor of computer science, urges you to embrace a counterintuitive philosophy: “slow productivity” — that is, slow down, do less, and do better. Newport’s refreshing treatise aims to help free knowledge workers from the trap of “pseudo-productivity.” He urges workers and managers to step away from hustle culture and endless to-do lists and pursue purposeful accomplishment.

Take-Aways

  • Knowledge workers need a new work philosophy: “slow productivity.”
  • Knowledge workers “perform busyness” while hurtling toward burnout.
  • If you have a reasonable degree of control over your workflow, you can adopt slow productivity.

About the Author

Cal Newport, a computer science professor at Georgetown University, is a founding member of Georgetown’s Center for Digital Ethics. He hosts the Deep Questions podcast and is the author of Deep WorkA World Without Email, and Digital Minimalism.


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