October 23, 2018

A Productivity Definition

A few gems in this podcast interview of Chris Bailey on the Ezra Klein Show

Productivity is accomplishing what you set out to do.

Maybe simple, but I keep back to it. It clarifies the misconception that being always busy must mean you’re productive.

It also drives into another point towards the end of the episode:

The best benchmark the we can use to measure productivity is by measuring it against the intentions that we set at the start of the day.


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