I want to begin by showing how productivity has helped me turn some of my biggest personal and professional weaknesses to sources of strengths. Later I will dive into how productivity can be used as a spiritual bypass and a self-soothing mechanism and what can be done to avoid it from happening. Finally I’ll offer a way to rethink personal productivity as poetic technology, a term I’m borrowing from David Graeber.

These are coffee books that I gravitate to regularly. Apart from containing lots of great information and advice, they contain stories about people and places that I know and care deeply about.