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Too much productivity can be a bad thing.

If you’re infinitely productive, then the solution to every problem is to just keep producing stuff, instead of learning to say no.

This means a lot of companies will overbuild, and then drown in maintenance problems and fail catastrophically when they can’t keep up.




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