Writing about productivity seems like a nice racket.
What's with the excessive productivity propaganda the past few years. Is that what humans are? What humans exist to be/do? Be products that produce as much as possible? So much time/resources/etc wasted to be more productivity. What's the end goal here?
The end goal is value. And value changes from community to community. I don't get this skepticism against productivity. It really doesn't have to be work stuff. After work I play piano, chess etc and any improvement done to these are "productive" too because I'm increasing my value to my community by making music, playing chess etc. It's infinitesimally tiny, but there is an objective difference between that and e.g. sleep which is an activity we're bound to do that is not productive. Not all of this stuff needs to be corporate propaganda, take what works for you.
I'd agree if only less people confused productivity with work / time efficiency and then get annoyed when the quality declines. As an old German proverb says, Gut Ding will Weile haben, which roughly means good things take time.
> The end goal is value. And value changes from community to community.
From one overstated and meaningless self-help word to another. Is that what a human exists to do? Provide "value" to the community?
> After work I play piano, chess etc and any improvement done to these are "productive" too because I'm increasing my value to my community by making music, playing chess etc.
How does that provide value to the "community"? Did you ask anyone if you playing the piano or chess provided value to them?
Funny, I play the piano, chess, etc for my own personal enjoyment. Didn't realize I had to play it for the community 's benefit. What else do I owe the community? So as I can better attune my productivity?
Well, you are part of the community. If you get value from playing piano or chess then you've provided value to the community.
I think there are two reasons to have chosen community here. Firstly you could chose to do thinks for the benefit of someone else, if that's what you want. Secondly it gets you to think about the externalities that exist.
I guess the person you are replying to thought it was obvious that a person is a member of the groups that they are a member of.
The same goal as anything else that floats to the top of the social media zeitgeist: making money. Anything that can be employed in the service of selling products or ads for those products can and will be "monetized".
What's with the excessive productivity propaganda the past few years. Is that what humans are? What humans exist to be/do? Be products that produce as much as possible? So much time/resources/etc wasted to be more productivity. What's the end goal here?