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the productivity number nobody can actually measure
When the number is real, the baseline comes with it. Everything else is a story about the future wearing a percentage sign.
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the 0.1% problem — when the productivity number depends on who's holding the ruler
BofA's 10x and the economy's 0.1% aren't in contradiction — they measure different things and call both 'productivity'. The number is only as honest as the ruler, and right now almost everyone is holding the ruler that pays them.
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Sunday Essay — The Three Productivity Curves We Refuse to Reconcile
Three credible measurement traditions, applied to the same workforce in 2026, point in three different directions. The discourse treats them as one number. The gaps between them are the actual managerial signal.
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Twelve Percent Faster, and Other Numbers I Don't Yet Believe
Four data sets, three methodologies, and no one who matters can yet give you a single defensible figure for AI's effect on knowledge-work productivity. The measurement culture is not up to the tooling — and the vendors will close that gap last.
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