Slow Productivity

There is two possibilities; either I am bored of the productivity genre or this book is not great. Ultimately it could be both; perhaps I have gotten all the productivity advice I needed and now the step forward is actually working instead of trying to hack my work process that usually does not exist. I'm a big fan of Deep Work by Newport and that was a big step in my career in thinking deeply about my work process, unfortunately this book has failed to reach the same bar.

He posits a theory that knowledge workers have been treated poorly; too much work and an emphasis on busyness & quantity of work. As a result, workers have been overloaded, on the edge of burnout and the noticeable lack of quality content. As a result, he argues workers ought to take more breaks, do less work and focus on the quality of work. He proceeds to spend about six to seven hours to argue this when it could have been done in about three or less. That is my issue with the productivity genre, too long is spent on unnecessary details and examples when more time ought to be spent dealing with the philosophical logic; explain to me why I ought to be listening to you instead of a strawman evil manager who wants me to work twelve hour shifts or my academic rival who works constantly and produces more work. He tries to argue his point by using the examples of others, from writers to musicians but it feels so irrelevant I'm bored throughout most of this book. The work feels too easy and not challenging enough - I would hope that Cal Newport would evolve as a writer; away from the middle ground of Stephen Covey and Malcolm Gladwell and into a writer befitting a philosopher of productivity. It seems that Newport is basically just rehashing the same couple ideas he has and writing more books unnecessarily. I read Deep Work, why read anything else from Newport if it's just more of the same?