- Tags:: 🗞️Articles, Productivity, Infoxication, Writing is thinking, Refusing to stand on your own feet
- Author:: Cal Newport
- Link:: The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done | The New Yorker
- Date:: 2021-01-03
- Source date:: 2020-11-17
Como se ha puesto el foco en la productividad personal, dice Cal que tenemos una Tragedy of the Commons atencional. Aunque me pregunto qué tiene que decir Extreme Programming Explained de esto.
Individuals making reasonable decisions for themselves insure a negative group outcome. An office worker’s life is dramatically easier, in the moment, if she can send messages that demand immediate responses from her colleagues. But_ the cumulative effect of such constant, unstructured communication is cognitively harmful_: on the receiving end, the deluge of information and demands makes work unmanageable.
So, Cal understands that productivity can never be entirely personal.