Productivity Nexus
I fell into the productivity nexus several years ago. I think it was a symptom of not having a teaching position and needing to be able to justify the work I was doing. I tracked all the things, figured out oblique systems to plan out and quantify my hours of time spent on whatever I was doing.
Now that I'm back to teaching, I realize how much energy I spent on tracking and how little effect I think I actually had. I'm in a new district, teaching, and my to-do list lives on a legal pad. I look at that old district and I feel like I wasted several years of opportunity to actually make meaningful differences with people, not just my time ledger.
