The Essence Of The Productivity Discourse Is, Of Course, Bullshit

And why wouldn’t it be?

As it’s a Friday afternoon and I don’t want to write for a long period of time, I shall not belabor this. I watched this video a few minutes ago.

Pretty good summary of the “cult of productivity” we’ve seen in the last couple of years to a decade.

The essence of this discussion is very simply, however, and doesn’t even require an entertaining 12-minute YouTube video.

The first brick: Most white-collar jobs are not actually about productivity. They are about task completion.

Work as the island of meaningless tasks

Second: “busy” and “productive” are not the same things, but a lot of people don’t understand that.