Knowledge Work

concepts · 5 notes linked

Related: Productivity · Cal Newport · Asana · Jira · Monday Com · Trello · Project Management · Software As A Service

Notes

• Edsger Dijkstra's One-Day Workweek - Cal Newport — Dijkstra's minimal schedule enabled maximum research output
• Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier | Harvard Business School AI Institute — Field experiment showing AI boosts consultant productivity unevenly across tasks
• The Frustration with Productivity Culture — Critique of individualizing productivity optimization in knowledge work
• Your Project Management Software Can't Save You — Why project management software fails knowledge workers despite proliferation
• Your boss has no idea what productivity means — How companies mismeasure productivity by tracking inputs rather than outputs