Beware of Productivity Paradoxes

Cal Newport · 29 Jun 2026

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The personal computer made countless individual tasks easier without delivering the productivity gains everyone expected, and AI may go the same way.

Their wordsit’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time

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