A review by comrade_anka
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Sönke Ahrens

2.0

This book could have been two pages. The author’s comments about Luhmann just having a cook as his help and that ‘one lunch a day doesn’t make a difference for productivity’ made me roll my eyes. Really? Not spending time on cooking for several kinds three times per day (the author seems to only count one meal per day fir some reason) doesn’t save time? I’m not arguing that Lehman wasn’t productive as hell. But to compare his productivity with modern standards of academia and the amount of administrative tasks he didn’t have to do but we do is just adding to the cult of toxic productivity.