"**Efficiency isn’t the same as effectiveness**. Work is probably where we misunderstand this the most. **A day when lots gets done feels like a day well spent, regardless of what got done, and few companies manage to avoid the curse of ‘presenteeism’, where just being at your desk looking busy is rewarded**. (Almost every time-management book falls into the trap of assuming that whatever you’re doing is worth doing, and just needs doing more efficiently.) "But there’s ‘busywork’ in our personal lives, too, **whenever the volume of activity becomes a standin for its value:** what else is happening, really, when you go speed-dating, or push your kids into doing 25 extracurricular activities, or lead a frenetic social life based on keeping in touch with as many people as possible?" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[essentialism]], [[getting-things-done]], [[efficiencies]], [[personal-values]], [[presenteeism]], [[eisenhower-matrix]], **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]