Colin

“This is what ultimately matters: where you end up, not the speed at which you get there, or the number of people you impress with your jittery busyness along the way.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“But recognize that a practitioner of slow productivity cannot afford to spend nothing.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“SLOW PRODUCTIVITY A philosophy for organizing knowledge work efforts in a sustainable and meaningful manner, based on the following three principles: 1. Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers and when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout