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About Allen Wilson

As a grad student who studies ancient philosophy, Allen Wilson (@AGWilsonn) is personally committed to the idea of self-cultivation in everyday life. He has practiced productivity systems that range anywhere from the innocuous pomodoro technique to more extreme forms of polyphasic sleep. Through his many experiments and failures he's come to believe that self-formation is a unending path that all of us must take, and wants to give people the tools to discover their own way of walking down this path.

By Allen Wilson

Bloggers, Beware of Productivity Porn!

Bloggers, Beware of Productivity Porn!

Do you steal a few minutes to sneak some glances on your break from work?

Does the dim light of the screen dominate your sleepless nights?

Then you may be a victim of productivity porn. 

Productivity porn is an addiction to the self-help section of the internet.

Contrary to a healthy approach to self-improvement, productivity porn puts the addict in a perpetual state of seeking. For freelance bloggers, productivity porn translates to a pretext for procrastination that ultimately handicaps us from doing the thing that we do best: writing.

Instead, productivity porn paralyzes its addicts with the idea that they are not good enough and that they need a new fix before they can be a good writer. This habitual insecurity will easily kill the most beneficial habits.

Here’s why: 

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