Productivity isn't about time management
One of the week's top reads on Gentle Reader was a New York Times essay by Adam Grant
The organisational psychologist Adam Grant is perhaps best known for saying that always helping others is the secret to success. In his most recent essay for the New York Times, he unpicks two decades of research and concludes that time management hinders productivity rather than helps it. It was one of the most read pieces on Gentle Reader this week and you can read it in the app here.
Every week, Gentle Readers use our app to discover and enjoy the most compelling writing the internet has to offer. You can see what they loved reading below. The links will open in the Gentle Reader app, a quiet place to catch up on the week's best reads.
The week’s top Gentle Reads
Productivity Isn't About Time Management. It's About Attention Management
Adam Grant, New York Times
“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem
Descartes was wrong
Abeba Birhane, Aeon
“A person is a person through other persons”
Trump, Putin and a Possible 'Red-Line Moment' in Venezuela
David Sanger, New York Times
Will Venezuela be the place where President Trump, who has often seemed to tolerate Russian provocations, finally draws his own red line?
Commonwealth v. Mohamed
Margaret Redmond Whitehead, Atavist
A car crash in Kentucky left a 13-year-old girl dead. A Sudanese refugee was charged with her killing. Could anyone get justice?
The New German Question
Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs
What happens when Europe comes apart?
The Rise of 'Mama'
Elissa Strauss, Longreads
“Like most cultural shifts in language, the rise of white, upper-middle class women who call themselves ‘mama’ seemed to happen slowly, and then all at once.”
James Baldwin: ‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’
Robert Penn Warren, Lit Hub
An interview with James Baldwin from 1964
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