I found an old productivity guide at work. It explains a lot about modern work.

About ten years ago, I found this printed productivity guide lying around at work. No author name. No branding. Just a stapled handout with the headline “How to Increase Your Productivity by 250% in One Week.” In hindsight, it feels very of its time. I expected the advice inside to be completely outdated. Peak productivity-blog era stuff. Hustle culture before we really had a name for it. Rereading it recently turned out to be more interesting than expected. Some parts felt dated immediately. Other parts held up surprisingly well. A few sections even hinted at problems that would become much more visible later. The document talks about things like: focusing only on important tasks avoiding multitasking batching similar work together breaking large projects into smaller pieces limiting distractions resting properly None of that sounds revolutionary now - and that's partly the point. I'm operating under the banner of The Gluttonous Sloth these days, so there was also something mildly…