Joe Masilotti's newsletter explores a productivity paradox: after abandoning time tracking, his focus dissolved. The insight: the discipline of monitoring hours—imperfect as it was—served as a behavioral anchor. Without it, attention scattered. Masilotti's experience raises a question for knowledge workers: does the measure itself enable focus, or have we confused the proxy for the actual mechanism?

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