I don't agree with your view of productivity. You seem short term focused.
Spent 2 years as an online poker player, you learn that your short term productivity is an illusion. What is most important is a type of effort that produces long term gains. With that perspective you become better at prioritizing and understanding what both you and those around you (customers, investors) want. So the only way to be "unproductive" is to not follow through thoroughly on what you are doing now.
Spent 2 years as an online poker player, you learn that your short term productivity is an illusion. What is most important is a type of effort that produces long term gains. With that perspective you become better at prioritizing and understanding what both you and those around you (customers, investors) want. So the only way to be "unproductive" is to not follow through thoroughly on what you are doing now.
But you need to be smart enough to get out when the long term is, as we say in poker, -EV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value)