So... This is what the adderall shortage has come to?
I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
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#33> I have an endlessly growing list of projects I want to make, books I want to read, and skills I want to learn, so productivity means a lot to me!
If it really meant a lot, it wouldn't be a challenge to actually do it. It sounds like the real problem is a lack of interest in the particular books, skills, etc.
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#34I honestly cannot believe this. The porn part, the make me a smoothie request, dating dinners. This guy seriously paid people to sit behind him and didn't even think about them stealing his $1000 monitors until after the fact? He didn't try blocking any non productive sites? No productivity software? No pomadoro technique-esq focus methods? This guy should have paid $88/hour for therapy if we are being honest here
Therapy would take away productive time :)
I did actually use my own custom built productivity tools to block websites[0], and I used ActivityWatch[1] to track my time.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webblock/jeahkphmd...
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#35Alternate title: Wealthy gringo discovers domestic servants.
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#36Universal Summarizer was making the rounds on HN recently ( https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum ) and when I clicked on the link here (I hired 5 people), I decided I didn't want to read so much text. So, in keeping with Simon Berens' theme of increasing productivity (or at the very least, increasing the throughput of my procrastination), here is a summary: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://simonberens.me/blog...
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#37I could’ve sworn I read a similar article to this years ago, except it was only one person hired to keep the author on track.
This one!
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#38Universal Summarizer was making the rounds on HN recently ( https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum ) and when I clicked on the link here (I hired 5 people), I decided I didn't want to read so much text. So, in keeping with Simon Berens' theme of increasing productivity (or at the very least, increasing the throughput of my procrastination), here is a summary: https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://simonberens.me/blog...
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#39I’m not sure what’s more shameful: the fact that this might have happened or that it is on the front page of HN.
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#40This and things like FocusMate seem symptomatic of much larger, more serious latent problems. It reminds of the younger generations having to put YouTube on to eat a meal. I can't quite put my finger on the connection, but paying a person sit behind you and ask how you're doing, and make you a smoothie... it feels like you're hiring someone to be your mother. This entire experiment left me feeling unclean.