One of the [[3 Keys to Slow Productivity]] by Cal Newport was to work at a natural pace. Cal Newport went surprisingly literal with "natural" here - he talked about hunter-gatherers have "seasons" to their work. While, yes, the actual _pace_ of modern life is considerably faster than really any time in human history before us, another problem is just how _unchanging_ that pace is. We are expected to put in 40+ hours a week, every week, except for those couple of weeks a year where you get vacations. Cal was a fan of longer, month(s)-long breaks in an annual cycle. He also briefly went into the concept of working very _slowly_ and then _very fervently_ when the inspiration struck. **** # More ## Source - [[Slow Productivity]] ## Related