What are these votes author says he's casting ?
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become
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#32This kind of content is better suited for LinkedIn. I'm not a machine. I need rest and recreation to function properly. I sometimes get sick or sleep poorly. I sometimes get bursts of inspiration. There's no telling what condition I'll be working with on a given day. But perhaps you're right. Perhaps I'm casting my vote against being some sigma grindset, 4 AM cold showers, audiobooks at 3X speed kind of guy. The othe…
Woah I didn't know doing audiobooks at 3X was perceived as some kind of a virtue.
I do it out of pure laziness. Particularly, all youtube things (with 'Video Speed Controller ' extension) at 2 or 3x because I just can't can't can't put up with normal speed.
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#33The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day. Yeah, you can keep that. I'm focused on getting 1% happier each day.
Yeah. I've personally been on a mission to throw 'bad', 'worse', 'good', 'better', and words to those effects out the window. They're meaningless and lazy at best. They need to be defined in every context, so it's easier to just skip to saying the definition.
At worst, they sound incredibly judgmental, presumptive, or pushy. It irks me to no end when others try to decide what good is on my behalf.
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#34Humans do not have the capacity to be perfectly consistent with their long term goals. Therefore, as you take actions through life you are also voting for the person you don't want to be simply through failure or randomness.
Luckily there is a REPL for human behavior: feedback from the environment that the decision you made did or did not support your long term goals
This REPL allows you to iterate toward increasing the percentage of your effort that goes to long term goals.
This assumes you have measurable long term goals.
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#35I find it a little strange that it seems like so many people are working so hard, all the time, to run away from the person they are today. I’m ambitious as anyone, but some of this stuff is too much.
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#36This kind of content is better suited for LinkedIn. I'm not a machine. I need rest and recreation to function properly. I sometimes get sick or sleep poorly. I sometimes get bursts of inspiration. There's no telling what condition I'll be working with on a given day. But perhaps you're right. Perhaps I'm casting my vote against being some sigma grindset, 4 AM cold showers, audiobooks at 3X speed kind of guy. The othe…
It's a gross post that wasn't worth the read. It's just a guy reciting his latest resume updates.
Not sure if it was posted in earnest, but either way the dude is trying too hard. Hard work is a virtue, a bullet list of your own isn't.
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#37Oh man this is such a perfect example of productivity porn. Every action you take isn’t a vote for the type of person you wish to become, it is a vote taken by the person you are. I hate this mindset of “I am constantly working towards becoming someone else”. When do we spend time as the person we are? When do we enjoy the fruits of our labor? I feel like some people who take this mindset see their lives as being two…
I think the point is that if you aren't mindful and deliberate with your actions, you'll descend into behaving according to habits and desires instead of what is in the best interest of your future self.
Without being mindful, you'll just have another handful of chips instead of remembering you're trying to be not fat.
Without being mindful, you'll watch another Youtube video instead of doing something on your todo list.
Without being mindful, you'll jerk off instead of reading a book or interacting with another human being.
It's not that doing any of the above is inherently bad in isolation, it's that if you aren't mindful in the aggregate and just default to impulse, you'll find yourself drifting much farther from what you think you will eventually become than you otherwise realize.
We live in a world where distraction and dopamine hits are so accessible (sometimes even out of our control) vs even just 50 years ago, so we find ourselves needing to be more deliberate in our actions.
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#38"... The tl;dr of this book is a set of strategies to get 1% “better” each day..." So after 10 years you will be 1.01^3650 = 5929448572069177.9 times better than you are today.. Good luck.
lmao, the author doesn’t explain how we naturally become 1% worse everyday so 1% daily improvement is just like an equilibrium point of net 0 improvement.
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#39Oh man this is such a perfect example of productivity porn. Every action you take isn’t a vote for the type of person you wish to become, it is a vote taken by the person you are. I hate this mindset of “I am constantly working towards becoming someone else”. When do we spend time as the person we are? When do we enjoy the fruits of our labor? I feel like some people who take this mindset see their lives as being two…
I view life as a I do my farm. There is always work to do to make it produce; there are times of intense work and times where I enjoy just watching the chickens…not that I don’t enjoy the intense work too; but sometimes I don’t as well but it must be done. I am always looking to do things better and more efficiently…so over time the farm does produce more, it does get better, it is not the same farm as it was a year ago. The change is sometimes fast; sometimes slower but it is always there. I think the point here is to make the general direction of change for the better at a pace that is reasonable.
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#40Why is this getting upvoted?
Even if you find the headline thought provoking, the article puts no effort into sharing it or exploring it.
It’s just a list of self-enrichment things the OP is proud of having done lately. This is effectively just resume spam.