The illusion of busyness is this: It can look a lot more productive than productivity. A recent example is the book I wrote last October and November. Because my job is to constantly publish, and I wrote that for 60 days without publishing or making public a single thing, it felt like busyness but it was actually productivity. It was simply hidden. On the flip side, there are innumerable things on my daily Todoist (coincidentally) that are busyness but look like productivity. You ticked 29 boxes today, congratulations! Yeah, but how much good, meaningful work did you do?