What if you could be more productive and happy at the same time? I do think it's not good to have a culture where productivity is the end goal of everything.

What if you could be more productive and happy at the same time? I do think it's not good to have a culture where productivity is the end goal of everything. Yet I also think it's not good to have a culture where the first time the word "productivity" is mentioned, the reaction is repulsion (I appreciate at least your honesty in admitting you didn't read the article). Just like the drive to work-death represents the worst part of the American stereotype, the repulsion against anything that produces work or economic value to me, represents the worse of the European stereotype (or perhaps in Thiel's terms, indefinite pessimism stereotype). Can we admit that work isn't the end goal of society, while at the same time admitting that getting more work done in less time is a good thing? Also, on a meta-front, shouldn't we discuss which of Sam's tips work, which don't, and which one produces a lot of unhappiness as a side effect? To me that would be more interesting.