Productivity Fatigue: Is Striving To "Get Things Done" Causing Burnout? | Cal Newport

Cal Newport explains the 20 year history of personal productivity in Episode 299 of the Deep Questions podcast.

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Cal has been writing professionally about issues related to personal productivity for two decades. In today’s episode, he provides a short history of what he’s observed during this period about out constantly shifting relationship with this topic, from the quiet optimism of the 1990s, to the techno-mania of the early 2000s, to the whiplash shift from anti-distraction to anti-work sentiments in the 2010s. He ends with a summary of where we are today and what he currently thinks matters in thinking about getting…