The trick is to define "productive". The whole point of this is that it's not a binary state, and it's not "writing code". So, tl,dr : no, it's not because you

The trick is to define "productive". The whole point of this is that it's not a binary state, and it's not "writing code". So, tl,dr : no, it's not because you are most likely not the bottleneck. You are not the master of the cognitive overload you operate in for instance.