administrative kudzu................

 

We've established that overload is not fundamental to knowledge work.  It's instead largely a side effect of the crude ways in which we self-manage our work volume.  We further established that toiling at maximum capacity greatly reduces the rate at which we accomplish useful things, as it chokes our schedule in administrative kudzu and splinters our attention into fragments too small to support original thinking.

-Cal Newport,  Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout