> It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office Only if you're working harder. Generally when people talk about productivity-boost

> It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office Only if you're working harder. Generally when people talk about productivity-boosts they mean working smarter. That may mean stopping doing things that are just making things needlessly difficult. The example in the article is a good one: > I would write all my code for a new feature up front and then test all of the code collectively Knowing that this is a bad approach is an important lesson - doing things that way creates frustration and wasted effort, and likely harms quality, with no upside. Another example might be with organisation skill: if you're working in self-made chaos, it's more tiring, more frustrating, and it's less productive and harms quality.