Everything Wrong With Modern Productivity (+ A Hopeful Way Forward) | Cal Newport

[@sarthakgupta072]

The way Ben Meer defines a productive day is by defining a 3-3-3 plan. 3 hrs on your most important project, 3 shorter tasks and 3 maintenance activities. It is important to define what productive really means to you

[@Learned333]

I like this as it is better for owner/investor advice rather than worker drone. My productivity is based on my chosen order of goals leading to my purpose.

[@gray_mara]

This is how you know someone is out of touch, if they think anyone can find 3 hours a day so easily. If you're self employed, maybe you can direct your time like this. For most people, though, our days are filled with meetings and minutiae. I spend 25 hours a week on my side hustle while working full time, but I think expecting people to find 3 hours a day comes from a place of immense privilege.

[@Keepitcurious1685]

Thankful for the shorter yet still very meaningful and useful video. I like the long form, but this is great too. ❤

[@Learned333]

I've witnessed and experienced the productive employees getting dumped on and abused by their bosses because we're the only ones that get more done reliably. In the age of "quiet quitting" and "lying flat", I don't see this abuse going away.

[@reubendsouza3935]

Workload distribution strategy just top notch🔥

[@tod3632]

I do something similar. Sharing my personal kanban with supervisors and co-workers. Full transparency is fantastic if you are a productive and well organized person.

[@onlinelovexx]

I love this guy so much❤

[@truthsayer999]

productivity = (clean air and water, healthy food, cooking, comfy shelter, and plenty of sleep and exercise) / (energy and resources)

[@AmanGupta-gm6pw]

7:58 i use to think less of me because i was not able to be at full intensity more then few hours

[@vinaymahadevan2161]

Great video, as a software developer, I'm already using this thought process using JIRA and kanban like workflow.

[@piotrn2491]

Perhaps one of the reasons why email stood the test of time is because of the micromanagement problem of many managers and c-suit folks. Wdyt?

[@matthewcaldwell8100]

What you're referring to is a management philosophy that streamlines surveillance and uses it to discipline workers with increasingly little recourse. These aren't fundamentally technical problems. There was nothing, for instance, inherently preventing managers from calling workers at their home after work hours, or expecting them to work later. It was understood to be culturally unacceptable, the kind of thing a real asshole would do to compensate for his own organizational failures. Technology abetted an increasingly manic productivity maximalism in which workers need to be seen to be working at all times, not because it actually produces efficiencies, but because it allows for the exertion of power over them. Make the metrics fine enough and you can produce a system in which people are defined by their divergence from a farcically granular optimum. Managers are now afforded all the pretext they could ask for to wince and rationalize the staff cuts they were going to make anyway. That this is a terrible way for an organization to operate is obvious to anyone who has been in one at any but the highest levels. Once again, Cal, you've taken a cultural problem that has its roots in labor and shorn it of context so that it appears to be a matter of technological usage and personal regimen.

[@RonSwansonIsMyGod]

Alright, calm down Che Avocado...

[@wilestrella7202]

2 weeks without Cal😢

[@yashwardhanjondhale]

Stop watching him. And start implementing his work in your life. Otherwise there's no use.

[@Simoelfakkak]

Cal is so real that he looks lazy, to other hustle hard guys .

[@raginald7mars408]

there is no "Moden" Pro Ductivity.

[@andneomatmj23]

man, you are very hard to listen.

[@yashwardhanjondhale]

Read his books. It's better.