Newsweek on the productivity trend

Mar 14, 2007

Newsweek reports on the new trend of productivity gurus. From You Need to Get to Work:

In offices across America, we seem to be at a moment of get-organized-now hysteria. Time-management gurus have been preaching their work-more-efficiently systems since the days of Benjamin Franklin ... [but] in the electronic, gadgetized age of e-mail, BlackBerrys and ever-more-sophisticated desktop software - all designed theoretically to manage digital information efficiently - we've become overwhelmed. That's where the productivity industry comes in. The question is, however, whether this newfound emphasis on productivity is helping - or just making us crazier.

They have a point. Most of the systems I see on the market today are either paper-based, gratuitously complex, or both. (Or worse, positively misguided.)

People today need a digitally based, simple system that they can learn quickly, and practice quickly, so that their focus can be on getting work done rather than the system or tool itself. That's what's described in Bit Literacy.

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