We Need to Reclaim ‘Productivity’

Ross J. Edwards
8 min readJan 11, 2024

Let’s talk about productivity. We all know that there’s a cottage industry on the internet around maximizing productivity. Lists of morning routines, podcast interviews with CEOs, and books providing templates for success. A question that comes up more rarely is: What is all this productivity in service of? Why do we want to be the most productive?

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Ross J. Edwards

I’m a philosophy PhD candidate at the New School in New York. I write mostly about how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be applied to everyday anxieties.