“After the past few years of barely doing any exercise, I started a routine working out M-F morning for 30 min. It’s awful and I hate it. But here’s how I’ve been framing it in my head…” ~ learn more
I haven’t tried this yet. If you get to it first, let me know! “For productivity, we are concerned with the specific ultradian rhythm known as the Basic Rest-Activity Cycle (BRAC). This is a rhythm that plays out in 80–120 […]
A deep look at how shipbuilding improved over time. This is a set of two articles written to draw analogies between shipbuilding and building construction. | learn more
“Data from the pandemic can guide organizations struggling to reimagine the new office.” | learn more
“Workers accomplished the same amount but spent 2 hours more per day (7h vs 5h) at the office. So despite a reduction in commute hours, this company’s productivity declined (defining productivity as output per hour.)” | learn more
An insightful perspective on organizational productivity. “In 1992 the economist Peter Sassone published a study of workflow in large US corporate offices. He found that the more senior a person was, the more likely they were to do a bit […]
“A small group of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates inadvertently formed a longitudinal study contrasting expected productivity levels with actual productivity levels. Over the last nine months, our group self-reported 559 tasks, dates, and completion times – expected and actual.” | learn […]
“Prefer to work on things you can show. Prefer to work where people can see you. Prefer to work on things you can own.” | learn more
“Google productivity is down among its engineers during extended quarantine measures, especially among new hires, according to the tech giant’s own internal measures. After three months of working from home, Google engineers reported feeling less productive than earlier in the […]
“Being impatient is the best way to get faster at things. And across a surprising number of domains, being really fast correlates strongly with being effective.” | learn more