Comment by slightwinder

> The most productive people I ever worked with all had really minimal productivity software.

What about quality? Often, people are very productive, because they sacrifice quality for speed, especially the "annoying" longterm-values of products/decisions.

> They seemingly spent as much time doing productivity rituals and rearranging their productivity software stack as they did doing actual work

It's a different kind of productivity. Just not as valuable for the company.