Is It Possible to Become More Productive?

Folk wisdom in a place I've come to think of as Productivity World holds that Benjamin Franklin was a big user of to-do lists. (Of course he was. Can you think of anything more Benjamin Franklin-y than a to-do list?) The Atlantic's Amanda Mull recommended this same "productivity hack" in 2023. Tim Ferriss's four-hour workweek is only an eleven-hour improvement over John Maynard Keynes's fifteen-hour one. In other words, productivity is a long-standing obsession.

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