Productivity Is a Lie We Keep Buying

How Efficiency Culture Wasted Your Time and Killed Your Focus

Decades of efficiency culture, and nobody has any time. An examination of the productivity industry, what it actually delivers, and what it quietly destroyed.

By Ryan Holt

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