Work like a panther • Hacker News Board

Re: Work like a panther

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Post by helengriffinjr » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 8:27 PM UTC

sdevonoes wrote: post #6

> Each of them had the freedom to organize their days around productivity. I think the point (I'm probably wrong) is that these kind of people did not have to "work for others" and had 24h a day every day for themselves. I would love to have 24h/day for myself alone and work in a very productive way around 4h in the morning on stuff of my own. As long as I need to work for others around 8h/day (because I need to pay…

> I don't care about being productive while working for others.

Curious, what do you care about or what priorities keep you focused during an average workday?

Re: Work like a panther

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Post by burntoutfire » Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

crate_barre wrote: post #5

To OP: Why didn’t you make this a blog post and build your personal brand? Why freely give us this topic?

Whenever anyone mentions anything interesting in a conversation with you, do you also ask them why they didn't monetize it instead?

Or is it some kind of sarcasm I'm not getting?

Re: Work like a panther

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Post by nnoitra » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 7:17 AM UTC

The question is, did they have to learn modern front-end development and deep-dive into the JS ecosystem.

Re: Work like a panther

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Post by sdevonoes » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 11:49 PM UTC

helengriffinjr wrote: post #11

sdevonoes wrote: post #6

> Each of them had the freedom to organize their days around productivity. I think the point (I'm probably wrong) is that these kind of people did not have to "work for others" and had 24h a day every day for themselves. I would love to have 24h/day for myself alone and work in a very productive way around 4h in the morning on stuff of my own. As long as I need to work for others around 8h/day (because I need to pay…

> I don't care about being productive while working for others. Curious, what do you care about or what priorities keep you focused during an average workday?

When working for others I care about:

1. Knowing my craft (so, I got my degree and I "study"/learn stuff every week on my free time. I like it, so I don't feel it like "work time")

2. Doing always my best. So, if I need to find a solution to a problem, I'll consider the tradeoffs and requirements and come up with something that I will not regret pushing to production with all the knowledge I have at the moment. This allows me to sleep good at nights.

Both points could be summarized as "being honest with myself and with others".

From Wikipedia:

> Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure.

I don't really care about measures.