Knowledge Workers Quotes

“In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers and when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“For all of our complaining about the term, knowledge workers have no agreed-upon definition of what ‘productivity’ even means.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout