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I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Post by 4gotunameagain »

vuckin wrote: post #26

This is incredibly bizarre, to the point where I wonder if this isn't just a creative writing exercise. Why does he feel the need to be 'productive' for 16 hours a day? Why did he think the best way to deal with this was to hire a group of babysitters? Why was he being so weird to his assistants? It just doesn't add up. The whole thing is so damn strange. Maybe this is an experiment on the readers of his article, to…

I hope that it is a parody of what the modern western manboy™ has become, otherwise it is a bitter window to the state of affairs of the west.

Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Post by sam1r »

sberens wrote: post #34
12345hn6789 wrote: post #29

I 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... [1] https://activitywatch.net/

Did you ever consider building your own custom tools?

Or based on the ones custom you described aforementioned, which features or tools do you wish you had on top of it?

Just curious, and I respect the setup thus far.

Re: I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month

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Post by Apocryphon »

usefulcat wrote: post #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.

I think there’s something to that. It could be that there’s no immediate interest, i.e. everything is tantalizing but roughly equally so, so they cancel each other out and all simply exist as vague desires rather than actual goals.
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