September Reads 2021

The Frustration with Productivity Culture, Cal Newport

Optimizing productivity historically meant optimizing systems, in today’s knowledge workplace that burden has been shifted onto the individual. If productivity means increasing output per unit of input, on an individual level, this means putting in more hours and those hours typically come from personal time.

Food Fraud and Counterfeit Cotton: the Detectives Untangling the Global Supply Chain, Samanth Subramanian

Supply chain murkiness and counterfeit products - how a company uses element analysis to combat these issues. Explores topics similar to some of my favorite Netflix shows like Rotten and Broken, which are also about production and supply chain.