#bitching
Productivity Treadmill
Let’s say you’re very efficient at work. You like inbox zero. You don’t like any unread messages on Slack. Because you’re so efficient, you can do the same work in a few hours that others would do in a day or more. What should your days look like?
In an ideal world, such efficient folks like yourself would invest a few hours per day working hard, but then spend the rest of the day in a lazy glory. You’re efficient, so you should be tending to gardens, playing cards with friends, daydreaming, cooking new recipes, calling old friends and going for long walks in nature.
But do you?
What actually happens – you get more work. The world notices how fast you turnaround work and starts pushing more work your way. Your rapid replies on email only gets you more emails because your co-workers start expecting rapid replies for every little thing.
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生产力跑步机
假设您在工作方面非常高效。您喜欢收件箱清零，不喜欢在Slack上有未读消息。由于您如此高效，您可以在几个小时内完成其他人需要一天甚至更长时间才能做完的工作。您的日常工作应该是什么样子呢？
在理想的情况下，像您这样高效的人应该每天投入几个小时努力工作，然后在余下的时间里闲适享乐。您很高效，因此应该去打理花园、与朋友玩牌、做白日梦、尝试新配方、给老朋友打电话，并在大自然中长时间散步。
但是你有吗？
实际上发生的事情是——您得到了更多的工作。世界注意到您工作的快速性，开始推送更多的工作到您这里。您在电子邮件中的迅速回复只会让您接到更多的邮件，因为您的同事开始期望您对每一个小事都进行快速回复。
Productivity Treadmill
Let’s say you’re very efficient at work. You like inbox zero. You don’t like any unread messages on Slack. Because you’re so efficient, you can do the same work in a few hours that others would do in a day or more. What should your days look like?
In an ideal world, such efficient folks like yourself would invest a few hours per day working hard, but then spend the rest of the day in a lazy glory. You’re efficient, so you should be tending to gardens, playing cards with friends, daydreaming, cooking new recipes, calling old friends and going for long walks in nature.
But do you?
What actually happens – you get more work. The world notices how fast you turnaround work and starts pushing more work your way. Your rapid replies on email only gets you more emails because your co-workers start expecting rapid replies for every little thing.
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生产力跑步机
假设您在工作方面非常高效。您喜欢收件箱清零，不喜欢在Slack上有未读消息。由于您如此高效，您可以在几个小时内完成其他人需要一天甚至更长时间才能做完的工作。您的日常工作应该是什么样子呢？
在理想的情况下，像您这样高效的人应该每天投入几个小时努力工作，然后在余下的时间里闲适享乐。您很高效，因此应该去打理花园、与朋友玩牌、做白日梦、尝试新配方、给老朋友打电话，并在大自然中长时间散步。
但是你有吗？
实际上发生的事情是——您得到了更多的工作。世界注意到您工作的快速性，开始推送更多的工作到您这里。您在电子邮件中的迅速回复只会让您接到更多的邮件，因为您的同事开始期望您对每一个小事都进行快速回复。