Most people fall into a hollow productivity trap and think they are actually productive.

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Aug 23, 2025 • 1 min read


Most people fall into a hollow productivity trap and think they are actually productive. And no, I am not talking about just being busy.

Hollow productivity is when you spend hours managing tasks, organizing, and tracking without real progress. It feels productive, but nothing meaningful gets done.

You are really productive when you focus on moving the needle and creating results that matter. Focus on what truly counts.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses