🦄 Startups & VC 22h ago · Mal James

When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped — rest seemed to be key to output

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When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped —  rest seemed to be key to output
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I have a bad habit I am not proud of. When the work is going badly, I keep going anyway. The screen stays on, the cursor stays blinking, and I sit there past the point where anything good is coming out, as if the act of staying put is itself the work. Some part of me treats the unbroken stretch as proof of effort. If I am still at the desk, I must still be trying. The output stopped an hour ago, but the posture continued.
So a finding that the most productive people are the ones who stop on purp

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