In Why Productivity is Bunk Charlie Gilkey zeros in on the problems with productivity in one short passage:

… people spend hours and hours finding new ways to be quicker at things they don’t need to be doing in the first place.

There’s lots more in this vein. And on his about page Gilkey writes his blog is:

… for recovering productivity junkies who have had enough of Getting Things Done and want to start getting things done.

As someone who has long been bemused by the cult of Getting Things Done and who can’t believe the guilibility of people who fork out small fortunes for electronic gadgets and software designed to help them get organised I find Gilkey’s approach refereshing.

However, I suspect Gilkey is only part way into the recovery process, there’s a lot of material elsehwhere in his blog looking suspiciously like productivity tips.