How to Stop Obsessing Over Apps and Embrace the Right Kind of Productivity

You need to know why you want what you want

Ellane W
Produclivity

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Do you know why you are drawn to information and apps about productivity, and the technology that drives much of it?

Have you plumbed the depths beneath the impulse that just pushed you to click on yet another article about the topic? Are you trying to close a gap? What shape is it?

So many questions!

Efficiency of output per unit of input: that’s what productivity measures. Do-it-faster-do-it-better-never-stop.

I could tell you about powerful devices, beautiful apps (there’s a list of them below) that caress and align your tasks into aesthetic submission, or about new methodologies that promise to bring clarity to your day (as I have done and will do), but right now I’m more interested in the ultimate, personal why behind all of it.

Dream the Dream, Then Ask Why

Imagine for a moment that you’re as productive as it’s humanly possible to be.

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Ellane W
Produclivity

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans