The Limits of Personal Productivity

3 truths about life that you just can’t hack

Herbert Lui
Forge
Published in
5 min readSep 23, 2021

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I’ve been writing about productivity for close to a decade now. I learned things, piece by piece, and owe whatever career I have in large part due to my research on psychology, motivation, and getting things done.

Putting my learnings into practice has paid off. I’m working on a full-time assignment as…

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Herbert Lui
Forge
Writer for

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd