The productivity graph is broken and we’re pretending it’s fine

You know that neat little curve in project planning tools that suggests you’ll produce value at a steady pace from Monday to Friday? It’s a lie. Not a malicious lie. Just a completely detached-from-reality one. The myth of the 8-hour brain Most jobs still pretend that productivity is something that can be sliced neatly into eight equal hours a day. But if you’ve ever done any kind of deep,…