Productivity is about how much you accomplish.

Productivity isn’t about how busy or efficient you are — it’s about how much you accomplish

productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

Productivity isn’t about doing more, faster — it’s about doing the right things, deliberately and with intention.

Productivity isn’t about doing more things — it’s about doing the right things.

Alex, you cannot understand the meaning of productivity unless you know what the goal is. Until then, you’re just playing a lot of games with numbers and words.” “Okay, then it’s market share,” I tell him. “That’s the goal.” “Is it?” he asks. He steps into the plane. “Hey! Can’t you tell me?” I call to him. “Think about it, Alex. You can find the answer with your own mind,” he says.

I learned the hard way how to step out of the time economy and into the knowledge economy to become more productive.

Startup productivity is not about cranking out more widgets or features. It is about aligning our efforts with a business and product that are working to create value and drive growth. In other words, successful pivots put us on a path toward growing a sustainable business.

Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stress-free productivity requires it.

This is true startup productivity: systematically figuring out the right things to build.

productivity has nothing to do with how much you do, and everything to do with how much you accomplish.

It is also the right way to think about productivity in a startup: not in terms of how much stuff we are building but in terms of how much validated learning we’re getting for our efforts.

ingredients of productivity — time, attention, and energy

The most productive people work at a pace somewhere between the monk and the stock trader — fast enough to get everything done, and slowly enough so they can identify what’s important and then work deliberately and with intention.