In traditional _production_ work, "productivity" was always easily defined. - Productive farmers _produce_ more usable crop - Productive assembly line workers _produce_ more widgets The problem comes when you try to apply the term to _Knowledge Work_. There is no easy & universally applicable way to really define "production" when it comes to the application of your brain toward [[Business Value]]-producing results. Often [[Business Value]] isn't even easy to define _itself_ at the level of most people in even a modest-sized business. We sometimes use "busy-ness" as a [[Proxy Measures|proxy]] for productivity, but [[Visible Activity is a Crude Proxy for Productivity]]. Tim Ferriss went so far as to say [[Business is Laziness]]. **** # More ## Source - [[Slow Productivity]] ## Related