The more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are, and that is the conclusion of someone who founded a social network and a messaging app.

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  Reading every DM is worth the time even when you cannot reply to them all, because it is where you learn what to fix, whom to hire and where to invest.

  Durov says the more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are, and offers it as the conclusion of somebody who founded a social network and a messaging app. Rauch reads every DM he gets, even the ones he cannot answer, because it is where he learns what to fix and whom to hire. Two founders, opposite policies, same inbox.

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• People do not really want to be more productive; more of them probably want to spend time than save it. AAAnish Acharya6 Sept 2026
• What we achieve depends less on how much time we have than on how we use it JMJohn Stuart Mill1 Feb 1867
• People have to take the initiative to bring others together, which is hard when phones and the internet offer easier, cheaper dopamine than in-person gatherings. PLPieter Levels30 Sept 2026
• A productivity improvement means fewer people doing the same job, and that should be said plainly by the people defending it as good. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• Once people work self-motivated on something they care about, with people they like, they become unemployable. NRNaval Ravikant26 Jul 2025

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