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A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by jodrellblank »

> "When people meet a great leader, they often say, “She made me feel like I was the only person in the room.” Imagine giving that type of complete attention to everything you do—and making that thing the only thing in the room."

"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." ― Alan Watts.

(In the sense that physically doing nothing else, but secretly thinking about other things, is also distraction).

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by ksubedi »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #9

> Ozan Varol is a rocket scientist turned law professor > "If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn't the output be a larger number?" Glad this guy isn't building rockets anymore :-)

I think you missed the whole point there. (Or maybe you only got a fraction of the point ;)

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Post by enobrev »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #13

This is meta, but I'm not a fan of this trend of adding a pull quote to add emphasis to a sentence that was never really lost in the text to begin with, e.g. , A short sentence. A second short sentence. > A second short sentence.

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Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by dalmo3 »

jodrellblank wrote: post #21

> " When people meet a great leader, they often say, “She made me feel like I was the only person in the room.” Imagine giving that type of complete attention to everything you do—and making that thing the only thing in the room. " "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." ― Alan Watts. (In the sense that physically doing…

> Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes

But if you're ascribing a higher meaning to the act is it still Zen? Maybe true Zen would be not even knowing it existed in the first place.

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by erwincoumans »

His math literally doesn't add up. If you multi-task you need to ADD multiple multiplications, one for each task. For example, if you perfectly divide all attention, time and effort in two tasks, you ideally get:

0.5 * 0.2 + 0.5 * 0.15 (given that the value of the first task is 0.2 and the value of the second task is 0.15)

One important point is likely, that there is overhead in multitasking, so the actual formula becomes 0.45 * 0.2 + 0.45 * 0.15 + 0.1 * 0 where 0.1 of the time is wasted in useless (value = 0) overhead (of switching tasks, getting into the zone and so on).

You may or may not enjoy spending time in this 'useless' overhead...

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by maininformer »

function_seven wrote: post #15
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #13

This is meta, but I'm not a fan of this trend of adding a pull quote to add emphasis to a sentence that was never really lost in the text to begin with, e.g. , A short sentence. A second short sentence. > A second short sentence.

Pull quotes in general usually irritate me. I'm sure there's a place for them, when done correctly. But usually I'll see things like you pointed out. Or worse, the pull quote will come from a paragraph far above it (and so no longer relevant to the section I'm currently in), or far below it (so way out of context; I haven't even got to that part yet!)

They are very useful for skimming; I usually only read pull quotes first and then the actual article.

Re: A simple math equation can transform your productivity

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Post by damiankennedy »

I was thinking of something more like Drake's equation.

P = T * Hbar * Cbar^Dh * E * (Po)^N

P = Productivity T = Tiredness Hbar = 2PI/(HackerNews posts read) Cbar = 2PI/(speed of light) Dh = Disruptions per hour E = Environment Po = Productivity of people you work with N = Number of people you work with

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