14 connected korrents · 13 moments from 14 Apr 2011 to 21 Sept 2026.
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Productivity is deeply psychological and depends on brain chemistry, personality, environment, habits, and emotional state.
Last stated by 11 May 2026 · 6 months ago
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Praveen Kumar Purushothaman
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The psychological wellbeing of workers should be addressed by focusing on conditions that maintain or enhance productivity levels.
Last stated 10 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
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Patrik Schumacher
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Leaving a high-intensity career is a biochemical withdrawal, not only a psychological one.
Last stated 11 Apr 2025 · 2 years ago
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Andy Johns
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Pursuing efficiency pushes attention onto measurable factors and away from the psychological ones where the larger gains are available.
Last stated 9 Dec 2025 · 11 months ago
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Rory Sutherland
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Optimising for productivity costs you the experience, the hard parts and your colleagues — you are a human, not a computer.
Last stated 3 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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Kelsey Hightower
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In the knowledge economy, maximizing the wellbeing and happiness of end-users should coincide with worker productivity.
Last stated 10 Oct 2024 · 2 years ago
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Patrik Schumacher
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Same subject: happiness
A free person thinks about death least of all; their wisdom is a meditation on life, not death
Last stated c. 1661–1675
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Baruch Spinoza
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Same subject: happiness
A good life is forged from the very things that make it hard, since joy and pain in relationships come together.
Last stated 13 Jan 2023 · 4 years ago
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Robert Waldinger
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Same subject: happiness
A good life rests on things that demand skill and effort from you, not on goods that arrive requiring none.
Last stated 16 May 2024 · 2 years ago
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L. M. Sacasas
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Same subject: management
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.
Last stated 17 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Charity Majors
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Same subject: management
A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is.
Last stated 28 Oct 2011 · 15 years ago
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Patrick McKenzie
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Same subject: management
A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.
Last stated 28 May 2025 · a year ago
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Camille Fournier
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Same subject: agency
A business can use stewardship of a community publication as a top-of-funnel customer acquisition strategy without needing the publication itself to generate revenue directly.
Last stated 21 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Chris Coyier
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Same subject: agency
A CEO can master both peacetime and wartime leadership, but it is hard
Last stated 14 Apr 2011 · 16 years ago
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Ben Horowitz
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Same subject: agency
A company can produce a good commercial without a large budget
Last stated 21 Mar 2023 · 4 years ago
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David Heinemeier Hansson