Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

From Chawton Cottage to the Cubicle; or, Why Knowledge Workers Should Do Fewer Things In the spring of 2021, a program manager at HSBC named Jonathan Frostick, working remotely from his home office, suffered a heart attack. There’s a romance to focusing on a single pursuit, but this level of simplicity is typically accessible only to the most purely creative fields—Hemingway at Key West, banging out his morning pages on his Corona typewriter. For those who do not use LinkedIn and therefore cannot access the original post, a reproduction of his six resolutions can be found here as well: Alema Ljuca, “Heart Attack Survivor Shares New Life Resolutions and It Goes Viral,” Medium, June 16, 2021, [inactive]. In August, the Beatles finally made it to San Francisco for their final performance of the tour.