<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Productivity on Farzand</title><link>https://farzandfz.in/tags/productivity/</link><description>Recent content in Productivity on Farzand</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.162.1</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://farzandfz.in/tags/productivity/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Self Help in the Age of AI</title><link>https://farzandfz.in/essays/self-help-in-the-age-of-ai/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://farzandfz.in/essays/self-help-in-the-age-of-ai/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;For a long time, I assumed self help books were simply motivational advice repackaged for different generations, but the more I looked at them, the more I began to see something else: &lt;strong&gt;Self help literature is less about individuals and more about civilizations, and every era produces its own version of the ideal human that society is trying to manufacture at scale&lt;/strong&gt; and a lot of it can be tied to finding meaning across different periods in history (will write about it soon)&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>