Slow Productivity: How to Do More Real Work in Less Time
Do more real work slowly for your sanity
Do you ever get the feeling that your work life is split into two very different parts? There’s the time spent at your desk and everything else. The rest of your life. Your non-work life.
Working feels like a chore because it often feels like an obligation. You sit at your desk, put on a virtual hat, and spend several hours each day pretending to do something useful in exchange for money.
The real question is: how much of what we are doing is real work? With all these remote working possibilities, are we really moving the needle?
Availability comes at a cost: when you have more time to work, opportunities for busy and unimportant work also increase.
Busywork is any activity that doesn’t directly move a project forward or add value to the final output.
It’s the kind of work that fills up our calendars and exhausts us but doesn’t really lead anywhere. It’s unimportant work that drains our energy rather than adding value or advancing our goals.
In the age of modern work, there is no shortage of opportunities to do busy work. We can now check email from anywhere, access files from home, join a meeting from any location and work on the…
