Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.
Those of us have minimized expectations walk around with a greater sense of thankfulness (because so many wonderful things that we didn't expect come our way each day).
Torch songs are confessions. They are an expression of feeling that cannot be concealed or contained or minimized. They are marked by anguish, yes, but also by yielding.
Democracies must have equilibrium. . . and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.