Trying to implement a best way to attack productivity and the ever-increasing to-do list is such a challenging thing to do... and this article dives deep into the historical context of productivity porn and so on.

Really it comes down to the essential point of that there will always be a brand-new methodology for attacking our work.. and all it really comes down to is prioritization. Working our way one priority at a time.

Steer the course, when it comes to things you are trying to achieve. Minimize tasks, and maximize your efforts on the things in which you intend to achieve!

Remember we all have 24 hours a day, and yes it’s a great thing to take a break.

The knowledge sector’s insistence that productivity is a personal issue seems to have created a so-called “tragedy of the commons” scenario, in which 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, or disseminate requests and tasks to others in an ad-hoc manner. 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. There’s little that any one individual can do to fix the problem. A worker might send fewer e-mail requests to others, and become more structured about her work, but she’ll still receive requests from everyone else; meanwhile, if she decides to decrease the amount of time that she spends engaging with this harried digital din, she slows down other people’s work, creating frustration.