<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>anti-productivity on Aleks Gorbenko</title><link>https://aleksgorbenko.dev/blog/anti-productivity/</link><description>Recent content in anti-productivity on Aleks Gorbenko</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><copyright>Copyright © 2025, Aleks Gorbenko</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:54:52 +0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://aleksgorbenko.dev/blog/anti-productivity/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Stop being so damn productive</title><link>https://aleksgorbenko.dev/stop-being-so-damn-productive/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://aleksgorbenko.dev/stop-being-so-damn-productive/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Productivity&lt;/strong&gt; is an economic term. Investopedia writes:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Productivity compares the level of &lt;strong&gt;input&lt;/strong&gt; with the &lt;strong&gt;output&lt;/strong&gt;. The input may be labour, equipment, or money, and the output may be a good or service.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Personal productivity is a bit trickier to define, tricky to measure. Yet&amp;hellip;we live in the world of productivity tools, hacks and pundits who show how to you use 10 different tools to achieve exactly the same result, but with a slightly different UI and, sometimes wildly different price tag.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>