Tractatus on Being Productive

What can be said about being productive can be said with precision. Most of what self-help has said is not. Here, a cure: eight propositions, refined where refinement helps.

1. Being productive has a well-definable shape. 

   1.1 The word productive is wide in use and loose in meaning. 

      1.11 The looseness is a problem of language, not of the shape of being productive itself.

      1.12 Part of the looseness is conflation: economic productivity (output per input — what a business measures) and personal productivity are di…