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A simple math equation can transform your productivity
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#62This 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!)
I think they made sense in a world filled with paper magazines. You could quickly pickup a magazine flip through pages and see if anything caught your eye, if so then you buy the magazine.
On the internet it only makes sense if people scroll through an article to decide if it's worth reading. Does anyone do that? I generally don't. The scroll bar tells me how long the article is, and the heading and subheading usually tells me if it's something I care about.
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#63one of the worst posts I've ever read cheers mate
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#64And the rock keeps rolling down
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#65> " 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…
I don't dislike Alan Watts, but by his own admission he is an entertainer. If you're actually interested in zen the best place to start is with the texts:
大道無門 The Great Way is gateless,
千差有路 Approached in a thousand ways.
透得此關 Once past this checkpoint
乾坤獨歩 You stride through the universe.
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#66> 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 :-)
Several comments take issue with that same quote but fail to grasp the context: it was his naive dream-self who had this thought.
> But in the dream, I was staring at this equation as a mathematical beginner, completely befuddled by the result. How could that be? If you multiply two numbers together, shouldn’t the result be greater than each part?
When people share stories online and forums such as HN take parts out of context to insult the author, it’s a horrible experience.
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#67This is some top-notch clickbait coupled with some serious fabrication. I have serious doubts this guy dreamt about this, but boy it made a really "gripping" introduction to this breakthrough on productivity!
Also, first he's an astrophysicist, and then later, he's a rocket scientist. Which one is it? My money is on neither, but I'm sure he has a fancy degree.
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#69Little's Lemma directly relates work in process to throughput.
Replace customer with "work" and you have a simple equation to transform your productivity, not some millenial woo-woo resume-boosting nonsense like in this post.
L = Lambda * W L = Avg. number of customers in system Lambda = Avg. customer arrival rate W = Avg. time customer spends in system
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
If you are peeling the potatoes and have a bit of whole-hearted potato peeling and then immediately go off "wow, I was really focused there, what Zen potato peeling!" for a minute, well, those thoughts are not Zen spirituality. It's a common problem with reading or listening to stories about whole-hearted activity - one fills up with "Zen thoughts" for a while.
Huh, so being in the zone while programming is the definition of Zen.