the most productive people are the ones who strike a balance between the two extremes, who understand the power of capturing and organizing what they have to get done, but who also don’t sacrifice real work in favor of being productive about productivity.

The secret to being productive is to work on the right thing—even if it's at a slow pace.

While no one acts in accordance with their values all the time, the most productive people act in accordance with their values in the long run — and they do this by regularly making course corrections and finding what they need to improve on week after week.

Productivity isn’t about how busy or efficient you are — it’s about how much you accomplish

SLOW PRODUCTIVITY A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.

What separates the most productive people from everyone else is that they make course corrections every week to gradually get better at everything they do.

It is ok to work diligently at your pace. Don’t let anything or anyone rush you, that’s the easiest way to make the gravest mistakes. It is important to know that no one can love you more than God does, and in His time, He makes everything beautiful.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Put another way, the type of work that optimizes your performance is deep work.

Productivity is about how much you accomplish.

In an older society with few resources and mechanical work, the scheduled life is the most productive.

In a modern society with permissionless leverage and creative work, the unscheduled life is the most productive.

When we step back from these individual observations, we see a clear argument form: To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Put another way, the type of work that optimizes your performance is deep work. If you’re not comfortable going deep for extended periods of time, it’ll be difficult to get your performance to the peak levels of quality and quantity increasingly necessary to thrive professionally. Unless your talent and skills absolutely dwarf those of your competition, the deep workers among them will outproduce you.

The best person to get something done is a busy person

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.’ Think

Productivity isn’t about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil... . It’s more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time.” — Margarita Tartakovsky