If there’s one person who can share the key to productivity, it’s the guy who holds the world record for being exactly that: productive.

Plymouth-born and raised writer Darren Murph has released a book about taking efficiency to the next level, both at work and at play. The self-published book, “Living the Remote Dream,” details how he earned the record and how he applied the lessons learned to increasing his quality of life.

Murph, formally a technology blog writer, didn’t start out productive — the first article he wrote, at 250 words, took him five long, inefficient hours. From there, he learned how to focus, and by 2010, he was awarded a Guinness World Record for the sheer number of articles he wrote during a four-year span he worked for the technology website Engadget. Broken down, the number averages out to an article published every two hours for four years. By the time Murph left the tech blog in 2013, he’d written over 22,000 articles, over 6 million words, and at the same time had managed to visit all 50 states and 30 countries, seeing sites most people reserve for life after retirement. He simply knocks those items off his bucket list in the most efficient way possible.

“You have to be passionate about what you do,” Murph said is the key to getting things done.

The art of efficiency is rooted in that passion, he said, as well as in the ability to work for long, uninterrupted periods of time — one of the prime benefits of working remotely, where no commute eats up time and even friendly interruptions are minimal.

“It’s hard to find peace and quiet, but I really think that that was the No.1 thing that helped me — being at home, working in my home office,” Murph said.

But working remotely does take some special skills: “Communication is key with those (coworkers) not in the same physical space. You have to be a great communicator. It takes a certain type of personality to be able to express yourself over a dry medium like email,” Murph said.

Murph describes “Living the Remote Dream” as part how-to guide, tips and tricks for work efficiency and part archive of the often hilarious stories about what happened to him on the march to holding a world record. Since achieving the world record for most prolific writer — ever — Murph has made Bath his home and now works as a media/technology consultant with a public relations firm in New York City. He spends one week a month in New York and the rest of the month working from home. Even choosing Bath for a home base was the most efficient choice for someone working remotely: years ago, a grant enabled Tri-County Telecom to lay fiber optic cable in some areas of eastern North Carolina. It has one of the fastest connections in the state, Murph said.

“It just blows me away that I live in Bath, a town of about 300 or 400 people, and I have a faster connection than I had in Raleigh,” Murph laughed. “Being able to move to a place where I had access to really, really fast Internet sort of sealed the deal.”

Murph’s book is available on Amazon.com, in e-reader and hard copy, and a limited supply of hard copies are available at Backwater Jack’s restaurant in Washington.