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Since it was in Bloomberg, I thought the article might be about productivity, dollars of GDP produced per unit of effort. An update to Chad Syverson's 2011 survey article, What Determines Productivity, perhaps.
Instead it's part of the victim-blaming industry of "if you're not frantically busy, you're wasting your life".
If you want to try time-blocking: https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning.
I'm at a stage in my life where I have a true love/hate relationship with productivity. I have a business, a job, two young children and there's this thing going on in the world that makes everything kind of strange and our of our control. Every time I read an article like this one, and this one isn't particularly good, if I may add, I feel like saying, yes, right, you go ahead and try that calendar blocking thing wi…
That, and being kind to myself when I have unproductive days, which is almost every day. I suffer from Insomnia, I have for many years, I'm up at 1am after a day which I let me discipline slide. I didn't feel as productive as I should've been today, So you know what I did? I worked till 8:30pm. I punished myself. I broke my new golden rule of getting off the computer by 6pm, which was working so well for me. Then wha…