Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
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Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
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Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#2Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#3Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
Completely off topic but "Wikipedia, brought to you by Orange"? What is that all about?
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#4Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
But can one say that following the kinds of tips given in the article is already a kind of self discipline?
I know that I myself have a very hard time to work (like, I almost _can't_) if I'm not interested by (or having fun with) what I'm supposed to do. But sometimes there's no choice and then I'm really, really not productive. In this case, disconnecting myself from internet is kind of mandatory if I don't want to find myself "procrastinating" on IRC, HN or reddit (I often go there unconsciously, by reflex!).
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#5Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
My feeling is that the traditional definition of self discipline is kind of a fake thing. To me, self discipline is knowing yourself well enough to know where you will fail, and taking appropriate counter measures - not being strong-willed or something.
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#6Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
For what it's worth, anchorites would wall themselves into a small room -- the folks who lived atop a pillar were called stylites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylites
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#7Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
Completely off topic but "Wikipedia, brought to you by Orange"? What is that all about?
This. It is impolite to link users to spammy wiki-scrapers, unless your post is: "Hey, someone made another spammy wiki-scraper!"
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#8Divorce yourself from all contact and live on a pillar somewhere in the Sinai desert. I think those folks were called anchorites http://wikipedia.orange.co.uk/wiki/Anchorite I'm surprised that a connection to the internet is allowed on a more than---oh say weekly basis. As you might guess, I don't particularly agree with the article. Only cure to the problem at hand is self discipline. Anything else will fail...
Remember the marshmallow experiment? They gave kids the option of a marshmallow now, or wait for some time and the researcher will give you two.
What was the most interesting was that the kids who didn't eat it didn't just sit there looking at it, dreaming of how good it would be to eat it but took steps to distract themselves from the temptation.
This is much more powerful than self discipline.
Re: Boost your productivity: Cripple your technology
#9"And, with the exception of nethack, there aren't many ways to waste a lot of time at the console."
Clearly, Matt has not yet fully learned the Unix lifestyle!
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