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Microsoft reboots war on sleep
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#52I don't get the point of this article. The ads show an activity that a large part of the population is already doing, and that Microsoft has a product targeted to those people. What does the author have a problem with? Is someone forcing him to work at home?
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#53I think that the culture of working all the time is stupid, but so is blaming it on a single company.
Why not blame Android for making this possible with all the useful mobile devices. Or how about blaming the web for making access to information at all hours of the day possible.
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#54I really don't like this post.
The article is shoehorning an agenda and viewpoint in to an ad that is essentially a profile of an unusual person.
I don't like the tone, I don't like the language, and I don't like the judgemental assumptions.
It is obviously written by someone who doesn't know many working creatives, and why some people approach work that way.
And it is assuming that the author knows what is best, and what makes everyone happy, as if there are no variations in people in this world. I I find it a shame a person could think they know better what someone else needs than they do. Condescending. Insulting.
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#55I think the worst thing about this is that it tricks you into thinking that dipping into emails at the park or piddling around in a spreadsheet while you're piddling is actually working. It's not. It's an addiction. It's shovelling snow, it's a quest for feeling accomplishment without effort. It's more fuel for being constantly connected, for constantly thinking you're progressing and accomplishing by hitting that em…
Imagine you miss your child's goal just because you were checking your oh-so-important Excel spreadsheet.
Addiction, as you say. Lack of freedom (as any addiction is).
Plain stupid.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
i agree. i also think Microsoft isn't encouraging people to lose sleep and work in soccer games, at bed, etc. People already are doing it and Microsoft is simply putting out an ad that speaks and resonates with those people.
A big company should aspire to make life better, not worse. People don't need to work more than they already do (unless they really want to, which is fine, but most of the time they are expected to be always available).
A big company aspires to make money. Nothing more, nothing less. Most of the time that means asking people to do "more with less" for more hours.
It's part of the system. Anytime that you read about a company that does it differently you are seeing an aberration. Let them have some pressures applied and they will revert to the norm. Also, if you are reading about them it's because they are news not the norm.
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#57I think the worst thing about this is that it tricks you into thinking that dipping into emails at the park or piddling around in a spreadsheet while you're piddling is actually working. It's not. It's an addiction. It's shovelling snow, it's a quest for feeling accomplishment without effort. It's more fuel for being constantly connected, for constantly thinking you're progressing and accomplishing by hitting that em…
Two relevant books I recommend: Deep Work (an article by the author was recently on HN): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X47ZVXM/ Essentialism: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G1J1D28/
Thanks, the first one was less than $4 on Kindle / Amazon AU. Will read with interest.
Meditation also helps to quiet the mind and reduce the mental clutter, but it's not quite enough.
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#58I think the worst thing about this is that it tricks you into thinking that dipping into emails at the park or piddling around in a spreadsheet while you're piddling is actually working. It's not. It's an addiction. It's shovelling snow, it's a quest for feeling accomplishment without effort. It's more fuel for being constantly connected, for constantly thinking you're progressing and accomplishing by hitting that em…
Imagine you miss your child's goal just because you were checking your oh-so-important Excel spreadsheet. Addiction, as you say. Lack of freedom (as any addiction is). Plain stupid.
Is that better or worse than if you miss it because your boss wouldn't let you go at all?
I've had friends from the USA eat the cost of a plane ticket because their supervisor told them they'd get time off for a visit to Germany, but then got dunked on two weeks before the flight by their supervisor's supervisor, precisely because they wouldn't have been able to react to emergencies in Germany, and this entirely due to technological policy restrictions.
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#59Way back nearly two decades ago, I set up an early version of ActiveSync on my Palm Treo device. I noticed there was an option in the Treo email settings to disable real time syncing between certain times (after office hours), but I was SO excited about getting and responding to real time emails on my little phone device that I thought "Who the HECK would want to stop this wonderful flow of emails". Later when I upgr…
> I am totally sick of the deluge of mail from what is now 6 separate email addresses.
I do not use the Mail app in iOS. Rather (ironically), I use Outlook my Microsoft. It has a "Focused" and "Other" Inbox of all your mails. It only notifies you mail coming to your "Focused" inbox which it learns over time. I'm pretty happy about it.
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#60I really don't like this post. The article is shoehorning an agenda and viewpoint in to an ad that is essentially a profile of an unusual person. I don't like the tone, I don't like the language, and I don't like the judgemental assumptions. It is obviously written by someone who doesn't know many working creatives, and why some people approach work that way. And it is assuming that the author knows what is best, and…
The author is well known for taking this kind of strongly-opinionated, incendiary stance with his writing.