I want to describe calm productivity. And I want to contrast the results of attention management to the results of efforts to do time management.  I’m...Continue reading

Our attention is over-allocated by a nexus of events. This episode is what to do about that. I’m gonna acknowledge something that I’m not a big...Continue reading

The happiness at work episode. Yay. I’m happy to be at work. Last time we talked about pessimism versus optimism. A closely related subject is happiness...Continue reading

This one’s about optimism and pessimism, and what that has to do with productivity. I and the whole thing is a productivity concern for me....Continue reading

I want to talk about the history of knowledge work productivity. And it's going to involve a lot of different names. It's going to involve...Continue reading

I started out talking about the lies of productivity, but I’m going to change to fables because it’s just things we collectively believe without much...Continue reading

DBR 072: The Modern Productivity Paradox, What Should Knowledge Workers Do?

There’s an article in The New Yorker “What If The Attention Crisis Is All A Distraction” by Daniel Immerwahr. I think the attention problem (if...Continue reading

It’s time to update on philosophy of work; I’ve got some more info for you. A lot of this is going to be review, but...Continue reading

One of the primary uses of information is to help us learn. When we are explicitly learning, we work to collect information. It works the...Continue reading